On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Phillip Rhodes <motley.crue....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Forgive my level of ignorance here, but I haven't been a very active > participant to this point, so there's a lot I don't know. > > In a lot of the discussion around this whole "retirement" thing (both on > the mailing list and on forums like LWN, etc.) I see a lot of talk about > the problems with the AOO build system. > > So my question(s) are: > > 1. What is the main problem with the build system as it is? > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_System_Analysis# The_recursive-make_problem > 2. Do we need a whole new system, or just incremental improvements to > what we have? > We have a new build system, gbuild, started back in the Sun/Oracle days, based on GNU make and which was eventually intended to replace both build.pl and dmake. > 3. Regarding Mac in particular, I'll repeat this question from an earlier > thread: Does the ASF have Mac hardware for doing Mac builds, or are we > dependent solely on developer machines for that? > 4. I keep hearing about how LO adopted this great new build system... can > we in any way leverage work that they did? Or has that already been done? > Or is it not possible? > 41 of our 182 modules (22.5%) have been ported to gbuild. LO completed all of them but we can't copy from them. 5. Other than Mac builds, are any other platforms especially limited or > restricted in any way? > Possibly Solaris? > 6. Do we still build for OS/2? :-) (Sorry, I'm sentimental old fool). > > > Phil > ~~~ > This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM >
