Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Work around a bash-ism in configure.in

Hi Mike,

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 16:07 -0700, Mike Eberdt wrote:
> seriously yet.  And as I understand it, a transition is underway to GNU 
> make, so I guess I've been a bit reluctant to put a lot of time into 
> learning the old build system.

        Yes - there is some horrible sterilisation of build related things due
to the change there - unfortunately, the change is taking a while :-)
not at all helped by the "stop until gnumake4 is merged" putting a big
mutex on any gnumake work for the last month+. Bjoern promises to
release that mutex this week.

>  However, I didn't notice any info in the 
> Developers section of the Wiki about using the new build system, or 
> helping with the migration, etc.  Is this something that mere mortals can 
> contribute to, or should I just wait for the grand unveiling? :)

        Yes - something for mere mortals, and it'd be fantastic to have you
working on it. By far the best thing to do is to check out the
feature/gnumake4 branch - and build on top of that work - pick a module
to convert and work on it I guess. I don't think it's -that- difficult,
instead of reading any docs, I'd read the existing makefiles that are in
already converted projects - it shouldn't be -so- hard to untangle what
to do from that. Best to let others know what module you're working on
though.

        HTH,

                Michael.

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