Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-02 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/02/10 10:05, Jussi Pakkanen wrote: Another point is However, there are many cases where the current build process depends on a large set of external tools like bash, awk, findutils, coreutils. Does the actual building require these or is it more of a case of need these, because

Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-02 Thread bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:05:26 +0200 Jussi Pakkanen jpakk...@gmail.com wrote: There are some inconsistencies with the page. I'll post them here rather than directly to the page to prevent an editing war. Firstly under dependencies it says [CMake] is not usually available on the default

Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-02 Thread Jussi Pakkanen
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:08 PM, bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany bjoern.michael...@sun.com wrote: Firstly under dependencies it says [CMake] is not usually available on the default install of many platforms. and then a bit further down One might consider using Python as a

Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-02 Thread bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:21:24 +0200 Jussi Pakkanen jpakk...@gmail.com wrote: No I did not, but despite that it somewhat harsh to imply that CMake is hard to get or install. Getting it is roughly as hard as getting a compiler (buying full registered versions of MSVC notwithstanding). On

Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
Thorsten Behrens wrote: bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote: I started a new wikipage here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort/New_Build_System_Requirements collecting the major requirements for a new build system and what needs to be

Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
Jussi Pakkanen wrote: Another point is However, there are many cases where the current build process depends on a large set of external tools like bash, awk, findutils, coreutils. Does the actual building require these or is it more of a case of need these, because dmake/build.pl needs these?