Am Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:08:45 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Behrens <[email protected]>:
> Michael wrote: > > [reasons against autotools] > > > Granted. Though re-working OOo's make system in and of itself will > consume substantial resources, so I guess the question whether to > code another make system that's only used inside OOo, or whether to > use/extend something that's in wide-spread use out there deserves > some thoughts ... Well, automake provides few additional features we need for building OOo and we have lots of requirements that wont be provided by automake because OOo is special (huge, cross platform and almost a distribution of its own). Also, automake, in addition to being ugly, is not without dependencies itself: amongst them Perl(*). Best Regards, Bjoern Michaelsen (*) Yes, I know, that should not matter as it is intended to be run _before_ configure by the "developer" and not by the "user" (in autotools terms: those who want to compile the product are called users, which might be a bit confusing at first), but still. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
