We have many unit tests in the tree for some small parts of the build system
pipeline, but we don't have anything that resembles an end to end test, and we
kind of rely on the resulting Firefox not being broken by our changes.
With the Faster make backend growing, I want to ensure it produces the same
thing as the recursive make backend, at least for the parts it supports.
This adds some kind of test that allows to check that.
The test I'm about to add doesn't have XPIDL files, and that currently avoids
the FasterMake backend to run properly. Also, in the future, when the FasterMake
grows the ability to build C++ files, it should be possible to build Spidermonkey
with the FasterMake backend, but it doesn't have XPIDL files either.
This new ChromeManifestEntry object type is generic and can hold any kind of
chrome manifest entry, but we currently only emit them for binary components.
References to sub-directory manifests is left to the backend, for now, until
all manifest entries are emitted by the frontend.
This patch moves the logic for selecting MOZ_WINCONSOLE out of individual
Makefile.in files and into configure. It also changes config.mk to only
pass -SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE if MOZ_WINCONSOLE=1. The MSDN docs state that
in the absence of -SUBSYSTEM, the linker will select the proper subsystem
based on whether the program contains [w]main or [w]WinMain, so let it
do that.
One program (windbgdlg) needed a tweak to add a wmain for when MOZ_WINCONSOLE
is defined.
This patch leaves one instance in security/sandbox/win/wow_helper/Makefile.in,
that Makefile has its own separate bug.
Dehydra/Treehydra is unmaintained, broken (iirc), and obsoleted by clang
static analysis. We've removed parts of the build system support for it, but
not all. This is meant to remove the remains.
GENERATED_FILES and accessible/xpcom/Makefile.in add to EXTRA_MDDEPEND_FILES, but for
targets that run during export. Export doesn't include EXTRA_MDDEPEND_FILES, so none
of them is ending up with correct dependencies. The EXTRA_EXPORT_MDDEPEND_FILES variable
could be used for this purpose, but given the circumstances this variable is removed,
and EXTRA_MDDEPEND_FILES is instead included unconditionally.
In bug 922912, we folded back gkmedias.dll info xul.dll, so in practice, there
is no default configuration left that exercises GKMEDIAS_SHARED_LIBRARY. And
sure enough, it's been broken for months in many different ways.
The gkmedias intermediate library is however kept for webrtc signaling tests.
The configure option has explicitly thrown an error for more than a year now,
and it happens that the remaining way to still forcefully use it has been
broken for more than 8 months.
