> On 05 Dec 2016, at 11:32, Pedro Giffuni <p...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Objective C? Yacc? Cygwin? Custom compiler flags to disable C++ exception >> handling, build some files with optimizations disabled? >> >> Our build systems are not our biggest problem. Meson, or SCons, or others, >> could be good if we were starting a new project. We aren't. We are >> maintaining one we poorly understand. >> > > I agree the build system is not our biggest problem. > >> Porting to Meson will not be any easier than porting to gbuild. Writing >> gbuild code becomes easy with practice. *Understanding* dmake / build.lst / >> d.lst is hard... >> > > So you are now a fan of gbuild? ;). > > Moving python would be a huge step forward towards getting rid of dmake > as it seems to be required for any alternative build system (other than > gbuild which of course would require it to build with gbuild anyways).
I presume that LibreOffice also uses the same build system? Would they be interested in using Meson, you think? Note, I hope that any notion of invidious difference (e.g., competitive and implicitly jealous differentiation) plays no role here in the larger goal of making building OpenOffice more feasible for more. Louis > >> I've spend the last day trying to port several more modules to gbuild. I've >> succeeded with main/fileaccess, main/io and main/package, but ran into >> walls with main/rdbmaker and main/store. Dmake apparently has ways to name >> libraries that gbuild can neither produce nor find (eg. libstore.so.3, >> libreg.so.3). These culprits use the evil UNIXVERSIONNAMES setting which >> generates such names: >> >> cppu >> cppuhelper >> jvmaccess >> jvmfwk >> registry >> salhelper >> sal >> store >> >> > > Jikes. > > Pedro. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
