[Libreoffice] [RFC] use of apache ant in libreoffice

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, if ant is used to build Java jar packages, then, I would prefer
> ant be used because ant's build script is much simpler than make's for
> Java packages.  For Java, ant is pretty much the standard build
> system.

The problem is 'ant' need to be treated as a 'Custom Build' and
parallelism cannot be managed properly. (iow the ant process would
have to be the equivalent of -j1).

Norbert