1. Downloaded the fossil archive from their website on my Debian Virtual Machine 2. After reading through build.txt, ran "./configure; make" to do a complete build 3. Got an error : OpenSSL not found. Consider --with-openssl=none to disable HTTPS support 4. Tried running "./configure --with-openssl=none", this time around it worked 5. Ran "make", seems to have worked 6. Added fossil to my $PATH by running "export PATH=$PATH:/home/brlcad/fossil-src-20140612172556" 7. Created a "core-8-5" folder where I ran "fossil clone http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/timeline?r=core-8-5-branch core-8-5" 8. Received the following output : "Round-trips: 117, Artifacts sent : 0, received: 139354, Clone finished with 28650 bytes sent, 121012118 bytes received 9. Afterwards, I received this in my bash : "Rebuilding repository meta-data... 100.0% complete... project-id: 1ec9da4c469c29f4717e2a967fe6b916d9c8c06e admin-user: brlcad (password is "c2a639")" 10. The core-8-5 folder only contains an SQL database, and I realized I made a mistake at step 7 11. Wanting to continue with my task, I downloaded tcl/tk's core-8-5 branch instead of cloning it from http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/info/89931ded2d18c277c7da8d3ba7df7c61b61c794b 12. Navigated to tcl_source_code../unix and ran "configure", ran into the previous issue that required me to run "configure --with-openssl=none" again, and this time it being successful. 13. Ran "make", no issues 14. Ran "make test" 15. Received after what felt like hundreds of thousands of tests "***** End of merge4: 2 errors so far ******" 16. Ran "make install" 17. Received a "permission denied", so I used "sudo make install" and it worked. 18. Ran "svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/brlcad/code/brlcad/trunk brlcad" to checkout the latest BRL-CAD revision, 63721 19. Ran cmake 20. "Elapsed configuration time..: 2 minutes 18 seconds -- Configuring done" 21. "-- Generating done-- Build files have been written to: /home/brlcad/brlcad-build" 22. Ran make test in the fresh brlcad-build directory to see if the tests failing were the same as before, which I made a list of at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DlCGUQqUMsIh1Hnn7TljnAUcWYmypKQycPk_VzBT-w4/edit#gid=0 to sync my work with Peter 23. The tests matched, however some of them still took ages to fail ( bu sempahore tests )