301405 - Use autoconf in js/src and create a libjsshell library to share between the regular jsshell and the xpcshell

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97954

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Currently, to build the javascript shell, we use a Makefile.ref file, which
Brendan says he originally wrote in 1995 and which doesn't benefit from the
niceness of autoconf. We might want to just mimic what has gone over in nsprpub,
since it seems that we do similar things. I've cc'd cls on this in the hope that
he might help out with this or give helpful pointers.

At the same time that we switch to autoconf, it might make sense to unify as
much code as we can between the two shells that we have into a jsshell library
and have them link against it. That way, instead of having to port my patch in
bug 300841 to xpcshell, I'd just need to implement readline in the library (and
perhaps do whatever necessary to provide that function to each shell, though we
might be able to avoid that).

Any thoughts, suggestions, concerns or pointers are welcome.

Comment 1

[cls]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97954 ***

Comment 2

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Oops.