[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 57246] Windows build instructions do not work if you are behind a proxy or have a Temp directory that you do not own directly.

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57246


Carol Szabo <carol.szabo at nokia.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         OS/Version|Mac OS X 10.5               |Windows 7




--- Comment #9 from Carol Szabo <carol.szabo at nokia.com>  2011-04-04 12:12:55 PST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (From update of attachment 87906 [details])
> These instructions are complex; is there any way we can cover this without adding so many additional steps?! Any way to break it down, for example?

There were so many steps in my previous patch, because I was trying to explain what to do at a Windows newbie level, just as the instructions for starting the cygwin_downloader were. I grouped the steps by objective via paragraph separators, maybe not clearly enough, but I was trying to add as little changes as possible to the complexity of the document structure and the requirements on the browser (that is why I stayed away from nested counters instead of list items).
I believe that this level of detail is unnecessary as the intended reader should be already familiar enough with windows to know how to extract a zip file and launch an executable contained in it, was well as to set an environment variable before starting an executable. I kept that level of detail in my first patch just for the sake of consistency.
In this second patch I have simplified the instructions, but I raised the prerequisite IQ and Windows/POSIX knowledge level.
Originally I started this bug to share some hard earned knowledge, but, by the time I finished writing this patch, I found that there are just a few warnings that may be worth sharing, such as the fact that ash -c /bin/rebaseall may fail due to lack of write access to the temp directory from cygwin (which is default for my Win 7 corporate install) and this would not be easy to detect since the window with the error is immediately closed and that if you are behind a proxy, configuring it in the usual Linux way helps.
This is what my latest patch does in essence, beside a little bit of rewording.

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