Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-03 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/03/10 15:38, Mathias Bauer wrote: I tend to agree that - whatever we will do - we probably won't get rid of cygwin. Where we have to get rid of it is the building of the normal modules. As an example, if a developer is going to work on sw, he might want to build sw and all c++ libraries

Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Thorsten Behrens wrote: The story on win32 (and other, not-so-standard platforms I believe you alluded to) is totally different, of course, but you won't fix that by prohibiting sed awk - fixing the root cause here means performing cross-compilation for those platforms. (you need to

Re: [tools-dev] New Build System Requirements

2010-02-03 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Mathias Bauer wrote: I just wanted to point out that you seem to underestimate the value of a less diverse build system. Most probably because you don't have to maintain it. ;-) Quite the contrary. I have to personally setup all the win32 build prerequisites on each and every box or vm I