Re: New Build System Requirements

On 02/02/10 10:05, Jussi Pakkanen wrote:
> Another point is "However, there are many cases where the current
> build process depends on a large set of external tools like bash, awk,
> findutils, coreutils." Does the actual building require these or is it
> more of a case of "need these, because dmake/build.pl needs these"? In
> my OOo CMake experiment I built idlc, generated urd, Java etc all
> without needing the tools listed. Perhaps someone could post an
> example from current build where these are used.

One example that comes to mind is solenv/inc/tg_shl.mk calling 
solenv/bin/addsym.awk on Linux and solenv/bin/addsym-macosx.sh on Mac OS 
X, each needed to adjust the generic linker version map files checked 
into the OOo code base to the specific needs of those respective platforms.

> If one is going to go the CMake route, the long term smart thing to do
> is probably to convert these existing things into CMake's internal
> syntax. It has quite a rich library of stuff. Yes, this is more work
> but the good news is that you don't have to do it at once. First you
> can replicate the old build system by calling the awk scripts and what
> have you and then replace them one by one. With CMake macros and some
> discipline this is straightforward.

Sounds good.

-Stephan