Changes between Version 86 and Version 87 of BuildingUsingGenericBuildsystem

Timestamp:

10/19/18 11:49:36 (6 years ago)

Author:

rozmansi

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BuildingUsingGenericBuildsystem

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 If you want to use your own, local sources (e.g. for OpenSSL or OpenVPN), put them in ''sources'' directory, so that the ''generic'' buildsystem knows not to download them from a remote site. The cached tarballs will be used even if they're of a different version than what would be downloaded. This is useful for building custom version.
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+=== Building your own fork of OpenVPN hosted at GitHub ===
+1. Sources in tarballs downloaded from GitHub are packed inside {{{openvpn-<branch>/}}} subfolder, while the build process expects them inside {{{openvpn-<version>/}}}. Therefore, set the {{{OPENVPN_VERSION}}} to the branch name, replacing {{{"/"}}} with {{{"-"}}} (e.g. {{{"master"}}}, {{{"feature-msi"}}} etc.).
+2. The build process expects the downloaded tarball to be named {{{"openvpn-<numeric version>.tar.gz"}}}; GitHub delivers {{{"<branch>.tar.gz"}}}. Set the {{{OPENVPN_URL}}} to {{{"https://github.com/<username>/openvpn/archive/<branch>.tar.gz/openvpn-2.6_git.tar.gz"}}}. The extra trailing {{{"/openvpn-2.6_git.tar.gz"}}} makes the downloaded tarball named reasonable to the build process: it begins with {{{"openvpn"}}} and it contains a version in the form of {{{/-[0-9].*/}}}.
 
 == Building OpenVPN and it's dependencies ==