On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Mathias Bauer <mathias_ba...@gmx.net>wrote:
> Hi, > > I tried to get rid of some copyleft dependencies. As I will leave for > vacation on Wednesday, I now send my first patch to the list so that > others already can have a look or even continue. I only did it on Linux > so far, of course we will need adaptions for other platforms. > I created the patch from the hg repository of OpenOffice.org, but the > differences to our still not existing svn repository won't be huge, so > it should bring us a little bit closer to a "clean" build. > > I also added some more todos to the wiki page. > > Meanwhile the license information at > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ApacheMigration > > about our external tarballs is nearly complete, so there might be some > more modules that could be worked on before we will tackle the > "internal" copyleft dependencies. As I see it, I already should have > covered most dependencies on copyleft licensed external tarballs, with > the exceptions of the modules for the svg import (Kai Ahrens announced > to work on it) and linear solver (Niklas Nebel already created a first > patch for it). > > Now some words about the patch. > > I wanted to have it lazy ;-), so I just added a single configure switch > "--with-disable-copyleft" and did some quick and dirty changes to > configure.in. If someone wants to make the name or the implementation > nicer - please go for it. I never got when to use "yes/no" or > "true/false" in our configure.in. :-) > > With the changes in the patch the following modules won't be built > anymore when the switch is used: > > dictionaries > epm > gstreamer > hunspell > hyphen > libwpd > mozilla > mythes > neon > nss > saxon > > and some modules or module parts that depend on them. I didn't need to > remove any sources, as all copyleft parts that I removed are external > tar balls. The code using these parts is just "normal" OOo code that can > stay in the repository, though should be left out in the standard build > at Apache. > > The final installation set of the build on Linux currently ist just > created as a tar.gz, native packages can't be created as epm is missing. > (I already posted a question about epm to this list, hopefully someone > will be able to answer it.) Thus the build currently finishes with an > error message, nevertheless the tar.gz was created and the result > basically runs fine. > > The patch contains some unfinished work in rhino that is still commented > out. If someone knows how to add conditional compilation to a build.xml > file (I don't): the module "scripting" has parts depending on rhino that > need to be removed from the build.xml in case DISABLE_RHINO is set. > Which parts these are can easily be "detected" (means: found by build > breakages) by removing the comment signs from my changes in rhino before > you start the build. > > If you want to try it yourself: get the source from > http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO340, apply the patch, call autoconf > and then do the build as usual, following the build instructions in the > ooo wiki. On my Ubuntu 11.04 the new configure switch was the only one I > needed. > i will try it under MacOS but i will also take a short break over the weekend By the way well done Mathias it brings us forward Juergen > > For those amongst us that are used to the OOo build system: I treated > configure no longer as part of the build tree, so autoconf is required > after applying the patch. Makes more sense that way, IMHO, and from what > I already learned on this list, it is the preferred way at Apache. > > Regards, > Mathias >
