389872 - NSS headers should end up in dist/include and dist/sdk

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Use dist/include for NSS, rev. 1

The NSS headers are currently shipped to dist/public/nss for reasons that elude me. But rather than trying to fix the NSS build system, I'd like to just copy these files over to dist/include/nss and dist/sdk/include so that they show up properly in the eventual libxul SDK.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Alternate patch: make NSS headers go to dist/include in coreconf, rev. 1

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

ted: the reason for the "public" directory is not "lost in the mists of time".
"public" contrasts with "private", a peer directory of headers private to 
the various modules.  

Benjamin: NSS will not be giving up on dist/public.  So the choices are
a) copy the public files to include (best done outside of NSS's makefiles),
or 
b) use the usual "ifdef MOZILLA_CLIENT" in NSS Makefiles. In the latter case,
rather than putting an ifdef every place in the Makefiles that now contains "public", I would suggest conditionally defining a new gmake symbol, once,
and using that make symbol everywhere instead of "public".  BTW, if you 
propose this to change NSS makefiles, this should be an NSS bug.

I suggest that you propose your change in mozilla.dev.tech.crypto and let 
it be discussed there.  Things are slow there.  Expect a day or two for 
it to be discussed.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The first patch here implements option a)

Comment 4

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 274630 [details] [diff] [review]
Alternate patch: make NSS headers go to dist/include in coreconf, rev. 1

This patch appears to unconditionally change "public" to "include". 
That's just not going to be acceptable.  Sorry.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

First patch landed on trunk.