Open Bug 680249 Opened 13 years ago Updated 2 years ago

create a place where all generated files live that isn't dist/include

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: briansmith, Unassigned)

Details

Now, I tell my editor to look for files in src/ and in dist/include so that it can do code nagivation. However, for files that are copied from src/ to dist/include, this is really annoying, because the copies always get in the way (i.e. I will edit the copy instead of the file in src/). If we moved all the generated files to dist/include/generated, then this kind of code navigation would work out really well and save developers a lot of time.
The only thing I expect to be tricky here is 'make install'.
Yeah, I guess that is the point of dist/include. Another solution to the same problem would be to generate the header files into a single _xpidlgen directory instead of <x>/public/_xpidlgen, <y>/public/_xpidlgen. Or maybe this should be WONTFIXed.
Summary: move generated headers from dist/include to dist/include/generated → create a place where all generated files live that isn't dist/include
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
Severity: normal → S3
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