On 17/10/14 09:32, Andre Fischer wrote: > As you may know, in the past years I have made a couple of experiments > regarding the > build system of AOO. With the resulting experience I > would now like to start to work on improving the build system. I have > in mind a > "soft conversion" that gradually replaces parts of the existing build > system, not a big push that takes years to complete and then breaks > everything. > > I would like to start with some under-the-hood changes to how the > build process is controlled. At the moment we have prj/build.lst > files that control how build.pl builds the dmake modules. Then there > are makefiles.mk in directories of dmake modules and finally we have > makefiles in gbuild modules. All of them are not makefiles in the > classical sense, i.e. they seldomly contain directives of how to build > a target. They are data files that primarily define dependencies > between targets or, for example, which object files go into a shared > library. They use three different, mostly unspecified and > undocumented, notations. > > The first work item would be the conversion of these files into a > unified XML syntax. At first these XML files would be converted back > to the old syntax on-demand and on-the-fly so that the old build tool > chain can still be used. Subsequent steps would then improve or replace > parts of this tool chain. > > If you don't object to this general plan then I would start the XML > conversion with the prj/build.lst files as proof of concept. I would > also start to write Wiki pages that explain in more detail how the > current build process works, what its draw backs are, and how, in my > opinion, it can be improved. >
everything that help us with the build system is welcome and hopefully we can drop the crap of the gbuild stuff instead of completing it. Juergen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
