Re: [dev] Re: Build Comments

2009-07-23 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Ok, I will remove the references from to gpc from the Building Guide for current releases. However, the directory external/gpc needs to be removed and configure needs to get rid of related options. Is there a bug for this already or do I need to open a new one?

[dev] Re: Build Comments

2009-07-22 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Thorsten Behrens thb at openoffice.org writes: all distros I know of are using the non-gpc clipper since ages, I'm not aware of any regressions there. Also, if my memory does not fail me, Hamburg switched to non-gpc for 3.0, at least I don't find any traces of WITH_GPC in solenv anymore. Ok,

[dev] Re: Build Comments

2009-07-21 Thread Michael Stahl
Terrence Miller wrote: If OOo wants to be able to reproduce builds, we will need to have a local snapshot of any package listed as a build requirement. The idea is that QA person should be be able to take a blank machine, a Linux install CD, and a CD containning a milestone and after

[dev] Re: Build Comments

2009-07-20 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Terrence Miller terrencem at sbcglobal.net writes: I am about half way through my first build Hi Terrence, thank you for taking the time to report back. and have already run into things which could lead to unstable Linux builds: My experience has convinced me that any source information

[dev] Re: Build Comments

2009-07-20 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Terrence Miller terrencem at sbcglobal.net writes: In current scheme you end up running configure once for each missing package (since it stops on first error). Sometimes the error message is useful but not always. I understand the problem, but unfortunately maintaining an up-to-date complete