On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:14 PM, eric.bachard<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
>>
>> I dislike what I see.
>
> Same for me.
>
>> Building OOo is not rocket science. In fact it is rather simple.
>
> I disagree : if the build is now so easy (when people ask on IRC, I have
> some doubts though), it is firstly because some people, including me spend
> years to simplify, improve  and change things.

I remember me removing gnucp requirement, I remember me fixing
JDK-detection,... So yes, the build-experience was improved. But that
doesn't matter/is even more a reason to get rid of the duplicated
build instructions.

We need a guide for current OOo, not for OOo as it was three or four years ago.
And since you seem to agree with me that building OOo is (now) simple,
I don't understand why you disagree.

When did you last hear a question about building OOo that is not
already answered by configure's output itself? When did you hear a
question that is not already answered on the current build-guide?

Just because people ask questions, doesn't mean it is because of the
complexity of the build-system. In fact I never heard questions about
building OOo on Mac on IRC.

Mac/Aqua really is the most smiple platform to build on. Install XCode
and you got all you need. (prebuilt mozilla/unowinreg.dll, ccache, and
on older systems subversion being the only additional tools you need.
you need.

And further thing: If it really is complicated, the build system needs
work, as it has received in the past.
Ideally you should not need any configure switches (mac only needs
--with-use-shell=bash (well, not needed, but you really should use it)
--disable-build-mozilla (use prebiult zips) and that's about it.

ciao
Christian

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