Hi Kevin,

I have come to oOo to ask - and offer - about Dmake.

...

I was stuck until I found your archive. You have taken dmake on to v4.3 but that lacks both the changes from 4.10pl1 and the perl-maintainer fixes. It also retains at least one bug from the base 4.10 --- so some of the changes are probably needed.
Please file bug reports for dmake in the OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker,
for known bugs, or even known missing patches.

Good News:
dmake-4.3 builds ok under MINGW+MSYS (stable) with only one edit in configure to accept an OS of 'MINGW-anything' = winnt/mingw. That build was on win98se so it should be pretty portable!
Good, I only tested the MinGW part with "gcc -mno-cygwin", so I missed
the MSYS part.

Bad News:
a) Its not fully compatible with 4.10pl1 and the perl makefile.
Erm, I'd say that is a Bug, but that depends on the errors you're
seeing. It might be that the perl maintainer introduced a 'rough edge'.

> b) There are few weaknesses in its makefiles/config if you need to install outside
/usr/local.
Really? ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/opt/whatever doesn't work?
Oh, Mingw. Maybe, what are the errors?

Questions for the list:
1) Does it seem sensible to consolidate 4.3 with the 4.10pl1 version (where necessary) ?
Sure.

2) Would you be able accept the changes back into your main branch ?
Would you be willing to sign a JCA?
 <http://www.openoffice.org/contributing/programming.html>

Actually I'm not sure. dmake is a bit special as it is the only
GPL package in the OOo cvs ( see dmake/readme/license.txt) but it would
ease the process if you did.

3) Do you want the changes for MINGW+MSYS ie. Gcc Native ?
We have them already with the cygwin build MinGW version, so this patch
is welcome.

4) Shall I create a merged version or is someone working on this sort of thing ?
Please file issues for all/or single patches. We can then open a new CWS
for "fixing" dmake or continue on dmake43p01 (See cws_src680_dmake43p01)
and integrate the patches.

Volker

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