Re: Perhaps stupid request
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:06:21AM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
> Hi ..
>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:36:05AM +0100, mh@openoffice.org wrote:
> >> I in doubt, that some people at Sun unstand the hole buildsystem for
> >> OpenOffice.
> >he, he. I think there are some people at Sun who understand what there are
> >doing ;). Where do you see the one large build script in the OpenOffice.org
> >tree. Building is done by makefiles one per directory. pretty conservative.
> >ok, traveling with dependencies has it's own tool, build.pl to avoid the
> >usual problems with recursive makefiles.
>
> yes .. off course and the bootstrap process might be use full to .. but
> it is nessasay to include all the needed libs into the OpenOffice
> Source?
> Why not using them from the OS?
There is no _must_ to include them in the source tree, but these sources or
libs are not installed on most systems of our users. To make life for them
easier we included them. The other point is, to have well defined version
of the libraries with a known bug and feature set. There may be workarounds
in the application code to avoid known bugs, and with newer version of the
library you may run into problems. yes of course theses cases needs to be fixed
ASAP, but if you have little timeframe... . One more point is, that enhancements
we made to these libraries are still in the queue of the original developer and
we don't want to wait until these get in.
Martin
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