Andrew John Hughes wrote: > This seems to be common with ex-proprietary codebases; I remember > having major issues building Firefox back in the day, and some of the > worst build systems I can think of other than OpenJDK are OpenOffice > and Chromium...
Cross-platform build systems for native code that need to go through a bootstrapping step to create tools used later in the build are by their nature non-trivial. Take a look at the gcc build system, for another example -> ohloh claims that 7% of the gcc code is written in autoconf. [1] ;) cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/gcc/analyses/latest -- ******************************************************************* Dalibor Topic Tel: (+49 40) 23 646 738 Java F/OSS Ambassador AIM: robiladonaim Sun Microsystems GmbH Mobile: (+49 177) 2664 192 Nagelsweg 55 http://openjdk.java.net D-20097 Hamburg mailto:dalibor.to...@sun.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz
