1433704 - Use system GCC for host compilations on mingw32 builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1433704 - Use system GCC for host compilations on mingw32 builds.

The binutils we currently use as part of our GCC toolchain artifact
doesn't understand some relocations in the CRT objects on Debian
stretch, making the embedded CRT objects from bug 1427344, which we want
to remove in bug 1431251, necessary.

OTOH, there is no benefit from using our GCC toolchain artifact for host
compilations on those builds. In fact, Android builds, which are in a
similar position, being built on Debian stretch and being cross-builds,
don't care to use our GCC toolchain artifact.

It's arguably a good thing that those builds are not tied to the version
of GCC we use to build Firefox for linux, so let's remove this
dependency.

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/216130/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/216130/

Comment 2

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

Comment on attachment 8946094 [details]
Bug 1433704 - Use system GCC for host compilations on mingw32 builds.

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/216130/#review222024

Yay consistency.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/cffe5fb28653
Use system GCC for host compilations on mingw32 builds. r=froydnj

Comment 4

[Raul Gurzau (:RaulG)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cffe5fb28653