Thanks for offering your help, I will definitively come back to that. Just one question, is there a design document or something where I can read how the new makefile concept is going to work ?
Jan. On 2 November 2012 09:26, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01.11.2012 18:31, jan iversen wrote: > >> you See below please. >> >> >> On 1 November 2012 18:18, Andre Fischer <awf....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 01.11.2012 17:57, jan iversen wrote: >>> >>> See below please. >>>> >>>> THANKS for your VERY informative answer, it helped me a lot. >>>> >>>> I was of the simple idea, that we pursued a simple build process made up >>>> of >>>> gnuMake and an addon to gather for the shortcoming of gnumake in respect >>>> of >>>> cascaded makefiles. >>>> >>>> We are in the process of migrating from dmake to GNU make. >>> When that is finished then we will have essentially one single makefile. >>> Well, there will be one top level makefile that includes all the other >>> makefiles. But there will not one make process that starts other makes >>> in >>> subprocesses. That would be evil, or so I have been told, see >>> http://wiki.openoffice.org/****wiki/Build_System_Analysis<http://wiki.openoffice.org/**wiki/Build_System_Analysis> >>> <htt**p://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/**Build_System_Analysis<http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_System_Analysis> >>> > >>> >> I am in the process of changing the l10n process. Currently it runs on one >> makefile that searches all directories, I want to change that to a target >> in every local makefile (build.lst). >> > > I am aware of that and am glad that you follow this approach. I am > convinced that among a lot of other improvements, we could make the > localization process a lot faster by > a) using make (dmake or GNU make) for controlling what to do when and > b) by integrating it into the build process to update the pootle data from > time to time. > > > >> Can I attach myself to your progress, or would you suggest that I attach >> my >> development to the current build process. my timeline is somewhat around >> new year. >> > > Conversion of Apache OpenOffice from dmake to gbuild is going very slow at > the moment. I am afraid that you will have work with the current build > process. But I am willing to help. > > > >> >> >>> >>> I hope to see your presentation on video later, due to personal budget >>>> restriction (dont we all have that) I cannot participate. >>>> >>>> Sorry to hear that, I would have liked to meet you. >>> >>> Well if you come to FOSDEM, we can have a long chat. My problem is that >> I >> am currently "only" a contributor so that ticket alone is 600,- EUR. >> > > Yeah, I know what you mean. And I will think about FOSDEM. > > > >> I am also prepared for google/skype videochats. >> > > That is good to know. Maybe after ApacheCon. > > -Andre > >
