Nothing uses this variable. blame suggests that it was used for HP-UX
once upon a time. The companion variable, MOZ_POST_PROGRAM_COMMAND, is
only used by HP-UX, but as we're not wholesale removing HP-UX
support (yet), we should leave MOZ_POST_PROGRAM_COMMAND alone.
One can run individual tests with python testfile.py Class.method. But
the output for tests only shows the method so looking at a test output
is not enough to tell how to run one particular test. Moreover, there
are many cases where a test file contains multiple classes, and we fail
to identify the difference between those classes.
Python's unittest has decorators to mark tests as skipped or expecting
to fail. Mozunit runner fails to print anything for them.
While here, somehow unify the output for TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL.
This leaves known failures silent about the failure. It would be better
to only show them with a flag, like -v, and to leave it to a followup.
Python's unittest separates errors and failures, where the former is
uncaught exceptions and the latter uncaught assertions. We were only
printing the former, making the mozunit runner output useless to debug
failures due to assertions in the code being tested.
I would usually edit the test to temporarily switch to unittest.main().
Enough is enough, handle failures properly.
At the same time, instead of printing all the errors one after the other
at the end, print them right after the TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL message.
The behavior is not entirely idempotent (most notably for
buildconfig.html), but this can be improved later if necessary.
It is idempotent where it matters.
This allows to get rid of config/makefiles/rcs.mk and its uses.
-Zi is already set through MOZ_DEBUG_FLAGS, which is set from
--enable-debug-symbols, which is the default, and if someone goes all
the way to explicitly disable them, we might as well not silently
override their decision.
-Od disables optimization, and the given reason was for sane stack
traces, but the fact is we're currently building debug builds, which
have been optimized by default for a while, and are the only ones with
DMD enabled by default, without overriding with -Od and are apparently
happy with it.
-DNDEBUG is already set through MOZ_DEBUG_DEFINES, and -UDEBUG is not
doing anything useful, since nothing is setting DEBUG on the command
line, nor does the compiler by default.
The flag is used to create .sbr files, which bscmake subsequently uses to
create .bsc files. These files and related tools are, aiui, the ancestors
of Intellisense.
The -FR C*FLAGS are added to the build if MOZ_BROWSE_INFO or MOZ_BSCFILE
are set in the recursive make backend. While the former has an AC_SUBST,
the latter does not, so in practice, only the former can be set by
supported methods, and would need to be set in a mozconfig. At that
rate, people who do want those flags can add them in the C*FLAGS on
their own.
Developers are probably better served by the VisualStudio backend
anyways.
We don't really care to set those in js/src/configure because the JS
engine doesn't use ObjC. We also don't care to preserve the += behavior
because there were no AC_SUBST in the first place, so it's unlikely
anyone has an override in their mozconfig and expects it to work.
FasterMake needs some RecursiveMake install manifests to have been
processed before doing its work, so we can actually end up processing
them twice because of the going back and forth from FasterMake in the
hybrid build system.
Set the dependency at the RecursiveMake level when doing an hybrid
build.
Recent changes in bug 1239217 added the faster backend to the default
build mechanism for artifact builds. This seems to have uncovered a
difference in behavior between GNU Make 3.81 and newer. Starting with
GNU Make 3.82, pattern rules are selected according to shortest stem.
Before, they are used in definition order.
So, we change the order of the pattern rules so the longest prefixes are
first. This should result in the same behavior on various GNU Make
implementations.
The current rule is only for "backend.RecursiveMakeBackend", but, with
the current default of generating both the RecursiveMake and FasterMake
backends, the command creates/refreshes both backends. This is, in fact,
how the FasterMake backend is refreshed in most cases.
Moreover, with an hybrid backends, the generated file is not
"backend.RecursiveMakeBackend" anymore, so we need a more generic way to
handle this.
Furthermore, it's not necessarily desirable for all backends to have a
dependency file to handle the dependencies to refresh the backend, so
generate a plain list instead. This has the side effect of making `mach
build-backend --diff` more readable for changes to that file.
Finally, make the backend.* files created like any other backend file,
such that its diff appears in the `mach build-backend --diff` output.
The FasterMake build system is meant to be invoked through `mach build
faster`, which does it already, or, in the near future, as part of an
hybrid build system, which will deal with it as well. People doing
`make -C objdir/faster` won't have the backend automatically refreshed,
but that's not a supported way to use it anyways.
While it would be possible to move those things in the export tier, it
is still interesting to have reporting for them separately, especially
considering I expect things to gradually move from the other tiers to
this new one.
While not entirely obvious, the recurse_pre-export target doesn't imply
actual recursion as long as the RecursiveMake backend doesn't emit
traversal information for it, so nothing will actually happen on this
target, but the interesting part is that it runs, per the generic
config/recurse.mk rules for tiers, between BUILDSTATUS TIER_START and
BUILDSTATUS TIER_FINISH, so that all its dependencies are accounted
as being part of the pre-export tier.
GENERATED_FILES impacts the export tier through the config/rules.mk
definitions, now moved to the backend itself, so that everything is
close to each other.
