Thomas,
I've been working on those in the past, actually... specifically, I started out with autoconf.. the problem is that the makefile generated by the process goes into an infinite loop (i.e. enter source directory, build source directory, come back to parent, enter source directory) etc... I can look into this further, if you want to...
This is what I like, volunteers ;-), please make it so ;-) ie get to it ;-)
We need all the tools and build environment working first, before we can go further, some of this seems to include Java JDK.
Heres the list of external tools (and whether or not I think we have it/them, can people confirm please:
NAS: in progress by Archprogrammer Dmake: available (somewhere I believe its on the desk of one of the Friedens) expat: available on os4 depot JPeg bits: pretty sure we have these, not sure where though. NP_SDK: must await Mozilla team for this?? Sane: in progress (hnl_dk et al) Twain: header only Zlib: OS4 depot Neon: Hopefully in progress by Hans-Joerg Patch: not sure if we need this, but surely we must have it?
Other requirements as listed on the linux build page:
glibc 2.1.x or higher: gcc: available X11 dev libraries/header files: presumably for speed/portability we could use this along with Richard Drummonds native X server for this part? PAM: we dont have this, but we probably need to strip this out anyway? JDK: contact JAmiga team for progress, or port/enhance the IBM toolkit (I forget its name ) perl 5: available csh: version 5.5 available as a 68k binary, PPC binary on dev.amigaopenoffice.org but appears slightly broken, may also need later version (6)? zip and unzip: available gpc polygon clipper: ported according to Christophes last update. GTK: Only needed for crash reporter, may be worth seeing what is needed and updating/using the gtk-mui library Ant: not yet available Mozilla libraries: presumably this will come as part of the Mozilla port, and we can disable the mozilla part of the build until they are ready. perl modules: Archive::Zip - unknown XML::Parser - available Crypt::SSLeay - unknown SOAP::Lite - unknown
Regards
Mark