Porting of new build environment prototype

Hi,

as you might have heard, we are working on a new build system based on 
GNU Make. We have started with a few modules and now are able to build 
them on Linux Intel (32 and 64 Bit), Windows, Solaris (Intel+Sparc) and 
MacOSX Intel. Now we want to work together will all active porters to 
support their ports with our new build system also.

I am writing to you as you are either known to work on an OOo port that 
we don't build in Hamburg or you might know who works on such ports.

To my knowledge Nakata Maho works on the FreeBSD and Mac PPC builds, 
Caolan is listed for several Linux ports on the porting web site. Yuri 
Dario is listed for an OS/2 port. I couldn't find anyone listed for the 
mingw port. So it would be nice if we could verify this information, add 
missing porters and also missing ports we should take care for.

We would like to start using our new build systems for parts of OOo in 
the near future. The question is: which ports must be supported then 
from start (as they are built regularily), which ports can be supported 
later (means:until the next release) and which ports are considered to 
be dead or obsolete.

The porting effort shouldn't be hard. We started with Linux (32 and 64 
Bit), it took only 2 days for the two Solaris ports and 1-2 days for the 
MacIntel port. Windows was a "bit" harder though. :-)

Of course we will have to port our next steps also, but we already have 
done most of the heavy listing now as we have implemented C/C++ 
compiling and linking, resource file compilation and localization.

Regards,
Mathias

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Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer
OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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