Various unresolved issues with configure:
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* --with-gcc-home may cause a warning message to be displayed even if the
correct version of gcc is found. This should be harmless.
* It is at present time not possible to use --with-local-solenv to point
to a solenv residing at a non-standard location.
* The configure script also creates a bootstrap script in the top-level
directory to support the creation of the build executable tools needed to
bootstrap the build process. These tools normally reside in the
solenv/$OUTPATH/bin directory for the supported platforms. It is hoped that
these tools will be removed from the solenv tree at some stage.
Running configure on Windows NT:
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* configure must be run from the Cygnus bash shell. On the bash command line
type "bash configure <options>" to run the script. The generated winenv.bat
file must then be executed from the 4NT shell in which you will be building
OpenOffice.org
* The path to the Microsoft C/C++ compiler home directory must be given as an
MS-DOS format path on the command line with the configure option
--with-cl-home. MS-DOS format names are <8 characters in length and don't
contain spaces. To get the MS-DOS format of a Windows pathname select the
directory in a window and right-click and choose properties.
* configure automatically copies the top level makefile.rc from the
config_office directory to the top level directory when run. If you are not
running configure and are using a pre-generated winenv.bat to set up the
build environment, then you must manually copy the makefile.rc file in
config_office to the top level directory.
* It is recommended that you close the Cygnus bash shell before you start the
build as it might cause problems later on.
Some quasi standards for configure
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* configure will use four type of parameters:
--with-xyz-home to locate an executable tool and related libraries, eg jdk.
--with-xyz to locate a library of that type
--without-xyz to disable a library, not always available.
--enable-xyz to set a compile feature such as debugging.
* Try and make tests as generic as possible, specific is good for early testing
of a feature but don't keep the pattern, make it generic quickly.
* configure should terminate with an error if it does not locate something that
is needed for a build to succeed, note that this conflicts with previous
standards which had a manual entry override. This is less than successful
configure either works or it fails, no data entry allowed.
Premises for configure
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* This is not a true autoconf project. The code base is huge and the ability
to test for everything is impossible. We are currently supporting only a
subset of compilers therefore do not need a lot of testing on compiler
capabilities.
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