1515843 - Various changes in how host "artifacts" are built

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1515843 - Use the raw OBJ_SUFFIX for host objects.

OBJ_SUFFIX is modified during the profile-generation phase to be i_o
instead of o/obj. _OBJ_SUFFIX is the unmodified value.

We don't actually do PGO for host objects, so we don't need to build the
objects with a different suffix.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1515843 - Stop building host static libraries.

The build system has skipped creating target static libraries for very
long, except in very specific cases.

We can actually do the same for host static libraries, for which we
don't even need the escape hatch to still allow to create static
libraries.

Depends on D15171

Comment 3

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1515843 - Remove HOST_AR/HOST_RANLIB.

Now that we're not even building host static libraries, we don't need
variables for the tools used to build them.

Ironically, we weren't even running HOST_RANLIB.

Depends on D15172

Comment 4

[Cristina Coroiu [:ccoroiu]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/2fa138ebd75d
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ec095af21520
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a415ca5d5ffd