gbuild: State of the LibreOffice Build System
The LibreOffice project is currently working on migrating its build system from the ancient and obscure build.pl/dmake based system that was inherited from OpenOffice.org, to a new custom build system based on the de facto standard GNU make utility. We aim to give an update on the status of the migration, present some of the new capabilities of the new build system, some lessons learned during the migration and discuss some open problems and limitations.
Details of the Talk
The LibreOffice project is currently working on migrating its build
system from the ancient and obscure build.pl/dmake based system that was
inherited from OpenOffice.org, to a new custom build system based on the
de facto standard GNU make utility. We aim to give an update on the
status of the migration, present some of the new capabilities of the new
build system, some lessons learned during the migration and discuss some
open problems and limitations.