Ideally, we should properly make and shell quote everything we print out
in makefiles, but that's a can of worms I don't want to open just yet. So
I'll limit myself to just passthru variables.
This further improves the changes from bug 1224460 to e.g. handle variable
references mixed with text, and to avoid adding empty strings to the
resulting flags variables when the expansion leads to an empty string.
Pymake's clinetoargv is very specific to pymake's use case, yet has been abused
as a replacement for shlex because shlex doesn't handle things properly for our
use cases.
Using pymake's clinetoargv, however, has shortcomings, and we're better off
importing its code in mozbuild, simplifying it a little, and using that
instead.
Plus, less dependencies on pymake will help kill it for good some day.
FlatFormatter, JarFormatter and OmniJarFormatter all, in some way, deal
with different pieces of the package being handled differently.
Instead of each of them dealing with their different pieces in some subtly
different way, instead, introduce a new base package formatter class that
will handle it for all of them.
Use this new PiecemealFormatter for the FlatFormatter.
Only directories containing chrome manifests are given as base to formatters,
but there can still be files given outside the bases, like, on mac builds,
all files in Content/MacOS, or Content/Info.plist, whereas chrome manifests
are under Content/Resources.
There is a lot of repetition across its various tests, and we're going to add
some more in a subsequent change, so it is desirable to make it a less
repetitive task.
This function was found to be a little slow while profiling due to repeated calls to
mozpath.dirname. This patch speeds up the function replacing dirname with string manipulation
(these paths are already normalized), by caching results on the basis of directory,
and converting from iteration to recursion to increase use of the cache.
This commit speeds up the "install tests" step run as a part of the build and running
tests by ~10% on a fast linux laptop.
Support for displaying docstrings in `mach help` was added relatively
recently. `mach build` was never documented. Let's document it.
There are a gazillion things we could put in the documentation. For now,
mainly focus on targets.
When a make target is generated with FileAvoidWrite, this can cause targets to
get rebuilt perpetually when a prerequisite is updated, because FileAvoidWrite
will leave the target's mtime older than the prerequisite's when the target's
contents are unchanged. To avoid this issue, GENERATED_FILES is modified to
unconditionally update its target's mtime.
Bug 118468 landed an option for FileAvoidWrite to always write to an output
file, whether or not the contents would be changed. This was to address a
problem caused by not updating mtimes when building GENERATED_FILES, but
undoes the purpose of FileAvoidWrite and isn't really necessary.
This is addressed in a subsequent commit by unconditionally updating
mtimes when processing GENERATED_FILES.
