304854 - Centralize duplicated files

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Claypool]

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There are multiple versions of now.c that do the same thing. The last comment of
Bug 206643 suggests making only one $_topsrcdir/build/cygwin-wrapper. Generally
this bug should be a magnet for files that could be potentially be reduced to
one and/or centralized.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[cls]

If those multiple copies are across independent products, then combining them is
not an option.  NSPR & LDAP are independent products.

Comment 2

[Robert Claypool]

Why not? This should be no different than using the same C compiler, make, cvs, etc

Comment 3

[cls]

It's different because the cygwin-wrapper is not released as a standalone tool
that is expected to be installed on individual systems.  

A better comparision is the config.guess & config.sub scripts.  Every project
which uses GNU configure has a copy of those scripts and they are not expected
to be installed on the system because they need to be constantly updated.

Furthermore, NSPR & LDAP are independent projects which are expected to have
their own self-contained CVS trees.  The extra build complexity to use an
external cygwin-wrapper script to save 4.2k of disk space is not worth the effort.