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

[Thomas Berezansky]

I believe 2.1 has my staff client build system changes in place. Thus  
a quick "make linux-client" will build a client and make a tar.bz out  
of it for copying to elsewhere.

Make updates-clients will do that, build updates for automatic  
updates, and install things in places that the manual update  
page(/updates/manualupdate.html via a web browser) can find them at.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Anoop Atre <anoop.atre at mnsu.edu>:

> 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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>>> Hood River County Library District
>>> 502 State St
>>> Hood River, OR 97031
>>> 541-387-7062
>>> http://hoodriverlibrary.org
>>>
>>
>
>
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