Hi Jürgen,
that was my suggestion also (see my reply to Christian), I just wanted
to fight the impression that "gbuildifying" the code base would be a
major problem (that Heiner's mail could have created). It isn't. But we
all seem to agree that this is not what we should do first.
Regards,
Mathias
On 15.06.2011 14:22, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
Hi Mathias,
i agree to Stephan that we should focus first on the legal issues in the
code base but in general i think that i can help quite fast with gnu make
and the new build system because of my experience with gnu make...
Juergen
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Mathias Bauer<[email protected]>wrote:
On 15.06.2011 12:46, Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote:
On 06/15/2011 12:20 PM, Christian Lippka wrote:
Am 15.06.2011 12:10, schrieb Mathias Bauer:
Moin,
there are two things about building OOo that need to be clarified.
Currently we use "configure" to set the build environment. The way we
are doing it requires that a few GPLed files are part of our code
repository:
acinclude.m4
aclocal.m4
config.guess
config.sub
configure
"configure" is generated from "configure.in" that AFAIK is owned by
Oracle and also resides in OOo's code repository.
How can we do that in a code repository hosted at apache.org?
The next problem is the build system itself. We have started to move
our code to a new build system using GNU Make, but there is still a
lot of code that uses another make tool, dmake.
Switching to GNU Make completely now may also be a good learning
experience for all developers new to the code base.
Right, but don't underestimate the effort in doing the conversion
especially without having Ause, Michael or Björn around. Won't be
complete for many months to come.
While it surely would be easier with Ause and Björn on our side, Stephan
and I can confirm that it's no rocket science. It took me a few days of
reading and understanding existing code to write my first build system
components for building zip and jar targets. I assume that others can do
something like that in a comparable time frame.
Stephan and I should know enough about the new build system to continue the
work on it together with interested developers.
Regards,
Mathias
