1310877 - gyp output for Foo and Foo_x64 are identical

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Build, defect)

Description

[Martin Thomson [:mt:]]

gyp usually generates a build configuration for each desired target.  On Windows, we generate Debug, Debug_x64, Release, and Release_x64, which include both 32- and 64-bit versions of debug and optimized builds.  On linux and mac the Foo_x64 variants contain the same data as their Foo variants.

I guess that this relies on having (4) matching builds of NSPR to point at for each configuration.  If I understand how this works, we don't necessarily need to have them present, only know where they might be if they did exist.  I'm willing to update our little script to ensure that this happens correctly and efficiently.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

bug 1315231 will make these go away on non-Windows. They'll stick around on Windows because the ninja backend requires them, but they'll be the same as the non_x64 equivalents.

Comment 2

[Franziskus Kiefer [:franziskus]]

There are no _64 folders on Linux/Mac anymore.