Bootstrapping

“Bootstrapping” means getting, building and installing autoproj before it can be used. The canonical way is the following:

• install Ruby by yourself. On Debian or Ubuntu, this is done with done with

  sudo apt-get install wget ruby

• then, download this script in the directory where you want to create an autoproj installation, and run it. This can be done with

  wget http://rock-robotics.org/autoproj_bootstrap
  ruby autoproj_bootstrap

• follow the instructions printed by the script

Additionally, if you are given a reference to a source code repository in which an autoproj configuration is stored (i.e. a directory in which a manifest is present), you can bootstrap this configuration directly:

wget http://rock-robotics.org/autoproj_bootstrap
ruby autoproj_bootstrap VCS

For instance, to build all packages made available by the Rock project, do

wget http://rock-robotics.org/autoproj_bootstrap
ruby autoproj_bootstrap git git://gitorious.org/rock/buildconf-all.git

Additional options can be given for the version control system. For instance,

wget http://rock-robotics.org/autoproj_bootstrap
ruby autoproj_bootstrap git git://gitorious.org/rock/buildconf.git branch=test