On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Jean-Louis 'Hans' Fuchs <jean-louis.fu...@adfinis-sygroup.ch> wrote: > Hello > > We are working on building AOO for Solaris on Sparc and x86. > There are people out there who would like to see official > builds for these platforms. For us (and our customers), this would also > be a great step forward, and we're eager to do what we can to work on this. > > So, here's a few questions / discussion points. > > * What are the steps required to promote those builds to be official AOO > builds? Is there an official process? > * What is the process to make solaris a officially supported platform, other > than > providing official installers/binaries? >
The main requirement for adding Solaris as a platform is to sync up your work with Subversion and sync up with our release date and pre- and post-release activities. For Solaris build to be "official" for that release, we would need: 1) Someone volunteering to post regular builds for Solaris from the sources in our Subversion tree. 2) One or more people to test the Solaris builds. 3) Make sure all fixes and patches needed to build under Solaris are checked into Subversion 4) Before we reach Release Candidate for AOO 4.0, all changes needed to support Solaris are in Subversion, and we have build instructions on our wiki so a developer could download the source from Subversion and build on Solaris. In other words there is no additional secret knowledge or code needed to build. It is all in Subversion (or freely available compatible 3rd party modules). You can look at the level of detail provided for our other platforms for an example: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO and https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-buildflags 5) For support, volunteers already provide support on user list and community forums. For most functional issues this would be fine. But you would probably want to monitor to see if any Solaris-specific issues come up. > We are currently checking with our customers if we could move to the GNU > Toolchain > instead of the Solaris-compiler. (One uses a plug-in that is available in > binary only.) > This would resolve many build-problems and reduce our effort. > > * Is something to be said against moving to GCC on solaris? > > Best, > Jean-Louis Fuchs > > -- > Adfinis SyGroup AG > Jean-Louis 'Hans' Fuchs, Software Engineer > > Keltenstrasse 98 | CH-3018 Bern > Tel.: +41 31 550 31 11 > >
