-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2010-08-10 22:33, Matt Whitlock wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 August 2010, at 9:52 am, Andrew Overholt wrote: >> * Matt Whitlock <m...@whitlock.name> [2010-08-09 21:19]: >>> After bringing all the dependencies up to date and jumping through the >>> usual hoops, I get hit with this: >> >> :) Is there something you propose to make "the usual hoops" less >> arduous? > > Currently, the Gentoo ebuild goes through these steps to build Eclipse: > > [...] > 4. Strip the building of libgnomeproxy from build.xml on x86 if the > user has the "gnome" USE flag disabled.
I believe it should be fairly easy to make a patch for this to allow a property to disable the building of libgnomeproxy. If you are interested in it, feel free to file a bug against LinuxTools and assign me to it (as I recall I wrote the libgnomeproxy part). > 5. Strip the building of the SWT native libraries from build.xml since > SWT is installed independently on Gentoo. I could be interest in e-b supporting this as well. There has been some interest in doing something similar in Debian. Feel free to file a bug and assign me to this one as well and I will look into a similar solution. > 6. Remove from the feature.xml files all the plugins that are for > platforms (os, ws, arch) other than the host platform. I thought eclipse did not build those plugins in the first place if they are not for the relevant host platform? > 7. Remove the doc plugins if the user has the "doc" USE flag disabled. > 8. Remove the source plugins if the user has the "source" USE flag > disabled. Could be interesting to support as well, though I wonder if the missing doc plugins may cause problems when building other eclipse based packages. > [...] > 10. Apply the two patch files that are attached, in addition to the > iterators.patch that I sent previously. I have no clue what the hamcrest patch does, so I wont comment on that, but the gtk_makefile.patch, I like the idea of it adding support for LDFLAGS, but I am not sure I agree with the removal of the -g compiler flags (don't know about the -s flag). Perhaps we should allow a variable to configure it (defaulting to have them present to avoid breaking current setups) - it would also allow our users to pass distro specific CFLAGS as well without having to do patches. > [...] > 13. Create the launcher script and the desktop menu entry. Do you have a template you use for it? Perhaps we can use it in e-b to ease the work for people with similar needs. > > The modified build process described above is the culmination of at least 40 > hours of my own work. Finding all the little things that need to be tweaked > throughout the XML files and developing the scripts to do the tweaking took a > tremendous amount of work. My conclusion is that the Eclipse build process > is a nightmare. If it weren't for your efforts with Eclipse Build, building > Eclipse would be completely impossible for anyone lacking intimate internal > knowledge of PDE Build, Equinox, and P2. > Perhaps we can convince you to spent a little more time to help us make it a little more sane :) ~Niels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREIAAYFAkxh0DkACgkQVCqoiq1Ylqzo+wCg2TtF9TFk1s32aJYOSEASQ94J WnwAmwT/LpDHSio6hcX+IcNNqRJqAc3k =Xi67 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ linuxtools-dev mailing list linuxtools-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxtools-dev
