[tools-dev] Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

2009-12-04 Thread Björn Michaelsen
Am Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:08:45 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Behrens : > Michael wrote: > > [reasons against autotools] > > > Granted. Though re-working OOo's make system in and of itself will > consume substantial resources, so I guess the question whether to > code another make system that's only used ins

Re: [tools-dev] Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

2009-12-04 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 21:46 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > but regarding IDEs, Bjoern just yesterday tried loading the sw module > and > the inc directory from the solver into some IDEs... > iirc, visual studio parsed the headers for half an hour, and was then > unusably slow; netbeans (with some gi

[tools-dev] Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

2009-12-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michael wrote: > [reasons against autotools] > Granted. Though re-working OOo's make system in and of itself will consume substantial resources, so I guess the question whether to code another make system that's only used inside OOo, or whether to use/extend something that's in wide-spread use out

Re: [tools-dev] Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

2009-12-04 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:46:56PM +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > but the real problem comes with libtool... on windows. > when i last used autotools (which is... 4 years ago), libtool was a shell > script some 10.000 lines long. > starting a process on that so-called OS takes _ages_, so it is not >

[tools-dev] Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Stahl
On 04/12/2009 18:41, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Hi Bjoern, *, > > In line with that, why not using autotools? It's ugly, it has many > drawbacks, but it's _the_ standard for FLOSS. Plus, it has excellent > cross-build capabilities, something I consider increasingly > important. well, we already u

[tools-dev] Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

2009-12-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Bjoern, *, so first off, really cool to see thoughts & effort spent on this: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/building_openoffice_org_with_gnu I didn't really spent much time mulling over this, it's basically just my current random thoughts on it: - regarding parallelization, that's sure

[tools-dev] Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

2009-12-04 Thread bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany
Hi Lists, The Build Environment Effort Team(1) has implemented a proof-of-concept on how to build OpenOffice.org using GNU make. The rationale for this is explained in this blogpost on GullFOSS: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/building_openoffice_org_with_gnu The Build Environment Effort Tea