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| Mohun Biswas 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| Sorry for the just-barely-on-topic question but I'm developing a build
tool and need some large, complex builds to test it on. I'm hoping to
develop a list of large open-source software packages. Right now I'm
working with gcc, Perl, Samba, MySQL, postgresql, and a few smaller
packages. Please suggest other large ones, esp. those with screwy build
hackery.
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Thanks,
M.Biswas
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| Peter Ammon 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| Mohun Biswas wrote:
> Sorry for the just-barely-on-topic question but I'm developing a build
> tool and need some large, complex builds to test it on. I'm hoping to
> develop a list of large open-source software packages. Right now I'm
> working with gcc, Perl, Samba, MySQL, postgresql, and a few smaller
> packages. Please suggest other large ones, esp. those with screwy build
> hackery.
XFree86 springs to mind.
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| Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| Mohun Biswas <m.biswas@invalid.addr> wrote:
> Sorry for the just-barely-on-topic question but I'm developing a build
> tool and need some large, complex builds to test it on. I'm hoping to
> develop a list of large open-source software packages. Right now I'm
> working with gcc, Perl, Samba, MySQL, postgresql, and a few smaller
> packages. Please suggest other large ones, esp. those with screwy build
> hackery.
Well, you can try one I have written, see
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~toerring/fsc2.phtml
It's not as large as PERL etc. but I had to go to quite some lengths
to make make do what I want it to do (e.g. makefiles getting created
from templates during the make process and then invoked, shell scrip-
ting within makefiles etc.) But I don't know if that's exactly what
you would see as a good test case...
Regards, Jens
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\ Jens Thoms Toerring ___ Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de
\__________________________ http://www.toerring.de
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| Mohun Biswas 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote:
> It's not as large as PERL etc. but I had to go to quite some lengths
> to make make do what I want it to do (e.g. makefiles getting created
> from templates during the make process and then invoked, shell scrip-
> ting within makefiles etc.) But I don't know if that's exactly what
> you would see as a good test case...
Sure, the gnarlier the better[*]. I already know my tool works on clean
build models; I need to test it on the wild side now.
Actually, after reading the requirements note on fsc2 I have to add a
caveat. Unlike most people who download open source, I have no intention
of actually installing and using the tools; I just want to build them.
Therefore I'd prefer stuff that doesn't have a whole lot of
prerequisites ("You must have already installed PERL AND SSL AND
libiconv AND ...").
[*] Of course since I'm both developer and QA on this, the QA side of me
says this while the developer cringes.
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Thanks,
M.Biswas
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| Doug McIntyre 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| Mohun Biswas <m.biswas@invalid.addr> writes:
>Jens.Toerring@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>Sure, the gnarlier the better[*]. I already know my tool works on clean
>build models; I need to test it on the wild side now.
Mozilla has got to be the gnarliest I've seen.
--
Doug McIntyre merlyn@visi.com
Network Engineer/Jack of All Trades
Vector Internet Services, Inc.
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| Jem Berkes 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| > Sorry for the just-barely-on-topic question but I'm developing a build
> tool and need some large, complex builds to test it on. I'm hoping to
> develop a list of large open-source software packages. Right now I'm
> working with gcc, Perl, Samba, MySQL, postgresql, and a few smaller
> packages. Please suggest other large ones, esp. those with screwy build
> hackery.
apache
sendmail
OpenSSH
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Jem Berkes
http://www.sysdesign.ca/
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| Markus Gyger 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| Mohun Biswas <m.biswas@invalid.addr> writes:
> I'm developing a build
> tool and need some large, complex builds to test it on.
Possibly ast-open from http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/
Markus
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| Måns Rullgård 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| Jem Berkes <jb@users.pc9.org> writes:
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> apache
> sendmail
> OpenSSH
OpenSSL sometimes requires quite some beating to be gotten into shape.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
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| Wim Lauwers 2004-05-30, 10:29 am |
| Mohun Biswas wrote:
> Sorry for the just-barely-on-topic question but I'm developing a build
> tool and need some large, complex builds to test it on. I'm hoping to
> develop a list of large open-source software packages. Right now I'm
> working with gcc, Perl, Samba, MySQL, postgresql, and a few smaller
> packages. Please suggest other large ones, esp. those with screwy build
> hackery.
>
Some other classics: Linux-kernel, KDE+Qt.
Wim
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