1723911 - NS_GRE_BIN_DIR is not supported on Android

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, task)

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1723911 - Make NS_GRE_BIN_DIR valid on Android.

Historically, Android builds would dynamically load the gecko libraries
from the APK, so NS_GRE_BIN_DIR didn't make sense. That however changed
a few years ago, and nowadays, libraries are extracted on installation,
and loaded from a normal path. We can thus make NS_GRE_BIN_DIR valid
and use it in places that need to derive the location of libraries.

The current logic of deriving from NS_GRE_BIN works on most platforms,
but falls flat on Android, so we use the strategy the FFVPX runtime
loader had been using, which is to derive from the location of a known
library.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/83ae03f316c7
Make NS_GRE_BIN_DIR valid on Android. r=xpcom-reviewers,nika

Comment 3

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/83ae03f316c7