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

2010-01-12 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 01/11/10 23:44, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: Am Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:04:21 +0100 schrieb Stephan Bergmann stephan.bergm...@sun.com: Which, at least in its simplest form, would imply that it necessarily modifies the source tree by adding files to it, something

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

2010-01-12 Thread Thorsten Behrens
bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: But the actual information contained in the above lines is actually this: rscdep source files: tools/bootstrp/* rscdep link libs: tl Quoting a band from Hamburg: Jein (=Yes and No). Of course, there is a lot of

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

2010-01-12 Thread bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:05:57 +0200 Jussi Pakkanen jpakk...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to point out that what you are doing is generating your own language and a build tool/generator based on that. There's nothing wrong with it as such, but this is reinventing the wheel again (just like

[tools-dev] tools.openoffice.org webpage cleanup

2010-01-12 Thread bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany
Hi list, can somebody from the tools project clean up the webpage at tools.openoffice.org? It is prominently linked from the page http://contributing.openoffice.org/programming.html, where dev newbies likely end up by the click path from the frontpage I want to participate ... - Programming.

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

2010-01-12 Thread Jussi Pakkanen
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany bjoern.michael...@sun.com wrote: What is the benefit you get from this instead of using something like CMake that already has a mature implementation of this functionality? One dependency less (because

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

2010-01-12 Thread bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:37:59 +0200 Jussi Pakkanen jpakk...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:35 PM, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany bjoern.michael...@sun.com wrote: One dependency less (because you will need an additional native build system like GNU make or