On 22.05.2013 00:04, Kay Schenk wrote:
We are seeing a fair number of folks who want to work on a specific aspect
or module of AOO. This is not unexpected, of course.
This is the information for how to do partial builds from the new Build
Guide:
[1]
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO#Partial_Builds
This is the information from the old Tools information:
[2a] http://www.openoffice.org/tools/build_env_tools.html
[2b] http://www.openoffice.org/tools/tools/build.html
I actually used the "build --all:<prjname>" for what I was doing...
So my questions.
I don't know if new developers should necessarily know if a change is
compatible or not.
Would just ONE set of instructions in the Building Guide work for both
cases?
Well, yes. You can always do a clean build. But that is probably not
what you mean. But: the motivation to do a compatible build is to have
turn around times as small as possible. This can only be achieved by
a) improving our build system or
b) by taking shortcuts
Option b) requires you to provide additional knowledge. That is usually
of the form: I changed file X.cxx in <module> but I know/believe/are
fairly certain that only library Y.dll has to be rebuild and nothing
else. Afterwards you have to copy Y.dll (or Y.so or Y.dylib ...) into
your office installation.
In other words, you have to know what you are doing. Otherwise use the
standard mechanism and be patient :-)
I agree that this should be better documented. Both the technical steps
(building one directory/library, copying this library into an installed
office) and the rules of thumb when to build just one library or a whole
module or everything.
...and
Would the dmake instructions work for both dmake and make? (Something I
think is probably another point of confusion for new developers.)
To some degree we already have that. For example call 'build debug=t'
in the top-level directory of a dmake or gbuild module and the module is
built with debug information.
-Andre
...and
Could we use a syntax that is more like what is found in [2b] for all cases?
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