1093499 - Add a -C option to mach build

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Add a -C option to mach build

The build system being what it currently is, there are various cases where one
wants something explicit, rather than the current autodetection.

For instance, one may want to run
  make -C $objdir chrome
instead of
  make -C $objdir/chrome
that mach build chrome currently invokes.

There are several such usecases that mach's autodetection makes harder, and
it's sometimes awkward when telling people, to debug their issues, to run
  make -C objdir something
and hear back that objdir doesn't exist or something along those lines,
because they took "objdir" literally.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/f1ec1b1b0048

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f1ec1b1b0048