Hi ... On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 01:03:15PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >* Rene Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020302 20:28]: >> I know, but you don't actually have a listing showing what builds (and how >> to >> build those things) and what doesn't. That's what I want. >The Problem is, that there is currently only the one large build-script >from the OpenOffice.org guys. This is like the code an very large >moloch, on which altars any readability and debugability was sacrified.
I in doubt, that some people at Sun unstand the hole buildsystem for
OpenOffice.
>Complicated Problems have not yet shown, the problem is to locate the
>problems.
:)
There aren't BIG problems, but a lot of few ones. The most a related to
the bisonproblem, that bison 1.33 is to new for the OpenOffice build. :(
>I'm currentlly on the long-term approach to get the OO.o source build
>using automake and in reasonable pieces. (The source with all the
>documentating is only 700MB and the compiled result about 100MB, so
>there is not much reason to need 9GB per build).
Whats your status, splitting up the source?
>Something that needs to be done but may need a little bit of knowledge
>for are the external sources used. Within the "external" directory there
>are the subdirectories:
>atl pgp
>cpp.lcc sane
>dt glibc util
>odbc ado
>psprint common
>twain download
>zlib freetype
>X11 jpeg
>audio npsdk
>dmake prj
>expat std2
>gpc w4w
>neon
>Someone should investigate which of them are still used, and how they
>are patched. I think expat is still used for the whole file formats
>and the patches seem the change the types used by the lib. (Or maybe
>only adding some with names compatbile to sal). It would be very
>usefull, if someone would go there and look how the libraries within
>Debian can be used, so that we need not ship these libs two times.)
I would say, the most of them are build in the bootstrap-prozess. So it
should be possible to get rid off the bootprozess and build OpenOffice
directly.
Regards
Jan
>Hochachtungsvoll,
> Bernhard R. Link
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