This is a small description of the task which I did yesterday, Compiling Scribus 1.3.5svn. I did this for contributing to Scribus, the only open-source DTP application available for us.I thank Christoph Schäfer (IRC Nick : christoph_s) for motivating me to stay with Scribus team for development.

Compilation was almost clean, excluding the problems which I met during configuring my machine for the same. First thing I did ( everyone who are interested in contributing to Scribus should do) was to check out the latest SVn snapshot of Scribus trunk from svn://scribus.info/Scribus/trunk/Scribus . It took about 10 – 15 minutes to check out Scribus trunk.

Now, the usual stuff like cmake for configurations and make, make install for compile and install was done. My machine was missing with cups-devel and lcms-devel which had to be done from repository using yum.

Hey…. now my build system is ready… !! ;-)

More details on building Scribus can be obtained from here.

Details on SVN can be obtained from here