twitter bootstrap make from source

Question

So I am trying to \"build\" twitter bootstrap from source git://github.com/twitter/bootstrap.git and I git clone it to my local machine.

Obviously, on my local machi

Answer 1

Not an expert on this by any stretch of the imagination (just started to play around with Twitter bootstrap as well), but I get a similar output as you when I just run make. However, if you run make bootstrap it generates a folder entitled bootstrap that contains the compiled css as far as I can tell:

make bootstrap
mkdir -p bootstrap/img
mkdir -p bootstrap/css
mkdir -p bootstrap/js
cp img/* bootstrap/img/
lessc ./less/bootstrap.less > bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css
lessc --compress ./less/bootstrap.less > bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css
lessc ./less/responsive.less > bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.css
lessc --compress ./less/responsive.less > bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.min.css
cat js/bootstrap-transition.js js/bootstrap-alert.js js/bootstrap-button.js js/bootstrap-carousel.js js/bootstrap-collapse.js js/bootstrap-dropdown.js js/bootstrap-modal.js js/bootstrap-tooltip.js js/bootstrap-popover.js js/bootstrap-scrollspy.js js/bootstrap-tab.js js/bootstrap-typeahead.js > bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js
uglifyjs -nc bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js > bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js

The new bootstrap directory (bootstrap/bootstrap) contains the following:

bootstrap/css:
- bootstrap-responsive.css
- bootstrap-responsive.min.css
- bootstrap.css
- bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap/img:
- glyphicons-halflings-white.png
- glyphicons-halflings.png

bootstrap/js:
- bootstrap.js
- bootstrap.min.js

This might be an issue with the documentation, leaving out the correct command, but I'm not sure. My memory of how a Makefile works is if you issue make without a target, it defaults to the first target in the makefile. In this case, that target is docs instead of bootstrap.

I think you can then just copy the contents of the new bootstrap directory to wherever you would normally put the css/js assets for your project.