[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Building Linux staff client for 2.1.0

[Anoop Atre]

Hi Buzzy
This is what I usually do instead of compiling the client again on my 
Ubuntu desktop. Note that we run Ubuntu servers and have not had any 
issues using this method of testing out staff clients. I am pretty sure 
that there shouldn't be cross distro issues either.

On the Evergreen server I tar up the "Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/build" 
directory found in the Evergreen source directory where you compiled and 
installed the system.

Then on the desktop I untar it into say build_2_1_1, so I can have 
multiple versions of the build directory for multiple test server versions.

Next I start up the client by running the appropriate xulrunner version 
required, currently we use xulrunner-1.9.2, and passing the application 
initialization file path (application.ini).

Example:
  /usr/bin/xulrunner-1.9.2 
/home/evergreen/client/build_2_1_1/application.ini &

Other options you can pass to xulrunner:

To enable a console, start xulrunner with the -console argument. Note 
that -console goes after the application.ini argument: e.g. xulrunner 
/path/to/application.ini -console

To be able to pick from multiple profiles you can pass a -P which also 
allows you to create a new profile. e.g. xulrunner 
/path/to/application.ini -P

To allow multiple instance to run at the same time you can use 
-no-remote. e.g. xulrunner /path/to/application.ini -no-remote

Hopefully this helps.

Cheers

On 03/23/2012 03:34 PM, Buzzy Nielsen wrote:
> BTW, if it helps, the client would be on a machine running Linux Mint
> 12, or some other Debian-based distro.
>
> Cheers!
> Buzzy
>
> On 03/23/2012 01:32 PM, Buzzy Nielsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to build a Linux client on a client workstation. Our system
>> currently runs 2.1.0. Are there instructions for building a staff
>> client on client machine for 2.1.0? Or does someone have an
>> already-packaged version of it? I saw these instructions:
>> http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-user:installing_and_running_the_staff_client#installing_on_linux
>>
>>
>> But I couldn't seem to get them to work. I've tried using a packaged
>> version of 2.1.0a, but it didn't work with our server.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Buzzy Nielsen
>>
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>>
>


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