Hi Mathias We from the OpenVMS port welcome your decision to move to GNU Make this will simplify our port in a reasonably big way.
Kind Regards, Martin Borgman OpenOffice.org On OpenVMS porting group. On 03-06-10 12:43, Mathias Bauer wrote: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
