498527 - Make the clobberer srcdir-aware

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Once bug 498522 lands, we'll have a split between the srcdir and objdir for builders.

We could have various types of clobberer behavior:

o clobber just the objdir when there's a request
o clobber the objdir + srcdir when there's a request
o clobber the objdir and have an option to clobber the srcdir per request

I think objdir clobber is most important; that's part of bug 498522.

srcdir clobber would be a very nice thing to have, just in case something goes wrong with hg or we have to deal with another nspr configure merge or something.  The main thing I'm concerned with here is the srcdir clobber should be per machine, rather than per builder; if the request comes in, and the depend build clobbers the srcdir, the debug build right after shouldn't have to clobber the srcdir again unless someone requests it again.

Comment 1

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Mass move of bugs from Release Engineering:Future -> Release Engineering. See
http://coop.deadsquid.com/2010/02/kiss-the-future-goodbye/ for more details.

Comment 2

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Since shared src was wontfixed, wontfixing.