building blender from svn?

i used to have a great tutorial for building blender from svn with scons ,i think i found
it on the blender website somewhere,it was ubuntu specific,but that laptop broke
and i lost that bookmark,can anyone help me out as to where i can find this tutorial?
thanx rick:yes:

Try this one http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Blender_3D:_ActionBook/Blender_Compiling

But i tried applying the greasepencil patch and got errors :frowning: