Hi I'm the person who did the CMake build test some time ago. I was asked to tell my results here to add to the discussion. This mail will be a shortened version of the replies I wrote to the blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/building_openoffice_org_with_gnu If you have any questions, please read that page first as the information you seek may already be there. In a nutshell: Does CMake build a global dependency tree? Yes. Does it require an IDE? No. Does it scale? At least to projects the size of KDE. Is there actual working code to try right now? Yes, see the link above. Does it do dependency generation without external programs on all platforms? Yes. Does it support bisect bug searching without a full rebuild? Yes. What does it have that no other build system currently has? A sane multiplatform replacement for Autoconf. To end this I have a question for Mathias Bauer. In the blog comments you say "The target names in our makefiles are *not* globally unique, sot it's impossible to include the svx makefile in sw, so it is not possible to reuse information." I don't quite understand what sort of information reuse you are trying to achieve. Perhaps you could give some more information, preferably with an example. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tools.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tools.openoffice.org
