Re: does anybody still use tcsh to build OOo?

On 08.04.2011 14:22, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Mathias Bauer<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> AFAIK tcsh doesn't work anymore anyway -
>
> using tcsh as the shell used *by* the build: yes.
>
> But the environment files are for the user's shell, and there it would
> still work.
>
>> Months ago I worked on that but then got in serious merge conflicts as
>> somebody else did some "refactoring" in configure.in. So I just abandoned
>> that work. AFAIR the fix was quite annoying work as the generation of the
>> scripts is scattered over the code.
>
> configure has nothing to do with it, as it is generated by set_soenv[.in]

Yes and no. The support for "with-use-shell" is in configure and that's 
where I started. OTOH it's possible that it was set_soenv.in where large 
changes kept me from continuing. I don't remember exactly. Nevertheless, 
configure doesn't support "--with-use-shell" anymore since quite some time.

Regards,
Mathias

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