Re: Re: Building OpenOffice.org with GNU make

Thorsten Behrens wrote:

> bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote:
>> > But the actual information contained in the above lines is actually
>> > this:
>> > 
>> >  rscdep source files: tools/bootstrp/*
>> >  rscdep link libs: tl   
>> Quoting a band from Hamburg: "Jein" (=Yes and No).
>> Of course, there is a lot of superfluous syntax in the current
>> description, but you are dropping some information too:
>> - Where is the information which naming convention the tl-lib is
>>   following?
>>
> That information is implicitely already contained in the name 'tl'.
> As you notice further down, the gmakegen script has a static map for
> those lib names.
> 
>> - What about the files in tools/bootstrp, that are not generating
>>   object files that should be liked into rscdep (sspretty.cxx for
>>   example)?
>> 
> Yeah, badly chosen example. The absolute majority of OOo code _is_
> organized in a fashion that allotting sources files to libs works on
> a per-directory basis. At any rate, the generator script can do
> both.

I don't think that we must keep the bad habit of having source files of
different libs in one directory. We can easily fix that on demand, so
this shouldn't be a roadblock for anything.

Regards,
Mathias

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