This is how I do it:

NOT COMPLETE! Coming soon…

Note: Unix commands start with $, anything else will be notes, comments. If you see a $ <some_command> The part after slash slash is a comment.

Getting the packages you need with yum:

After doing a fresh desktop install of Fedora I usually add these:

sudo yum install   ant ant-contrib ant-manual autogen automake autoconf boost boost-devel cmake cppunit cppunit-devel cvs gcc-c++ byacc expat-devel fftw flex git subversion libjpeg-turbo-devel freetype freetype-devel  fftw-devel  java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel libcurl-devel libcurl libpng-devel libpng libtool libXmu libXmu-devel minizip-devel podofo podofo-devel qt qt-devel swig thunderbird xemacs xemacs-common xemacs-info.noarch xemacs-packages-base.noarch xemacs-packages-extra-info.noarch xemacs-packages-extra.noarch yasm yasm-devel zlib-devel

Make a workspace:

I have several workspaces under /work

/work/osgeo
/work/geoeye
/work/drb

To build the osgeo side:

I have files that I source. One for osgeo one for geoeye. So I can source one or the other and then build test code. So in my bash start up scripts I start with no ossim stuff set. Since we're building osgeo I do:

$ cd cd to home

Source my osgeo setup file. This sets OSSIM_HOME, OSSIM_PREFS_FILE and so on. File contents at end: $ . ossimrc-osgeo

$ cd /work/osgeo

First time through check out code. Note I don't like to check out the whole trunk so I do pieces.

I always build libtiff, geotiff, gdal from the latest. You don't have to, it's up to you.

Get libtiff
$ cvs -d :pserver:cvsanon@cvs.maptools.org:/cvs/maptools/cvsroot co libtiff

Get geotiff:
svn co ​http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/geotiff/trunk/libgeotiff

The gdal source code is available via svn (subversion) server on ​http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal

Get gdal: svn co ​http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal gdal