522156 - Remove --enable-debugger-modules from Windows CE builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

http://mxr.mozilla.org/build/source/buildbot-configs/mozilla2/wince/mozilla-central/nightly/mozconfig#4

AFAIK there's no need to build with this (although it wouldn't shock me!), and removing it saves disk space (so smaller updates, and maybe lower memory usage depending on how dumb the WinCE module loader is?).

With this, the xul.dll in my build drops from 17.4 to 14.6MB (2.8MB, -16%).

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Wow, I'm surprised that there's that much size difference. Don't the debug symbols wind up in PDBs like normal Win32 builds? What the heck is all that extra stuff in xul.dll doing?

Also, we will eventually need to re-enable this when we get Breakpad support for WinCE/ARM.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Attachment: Remove --enable-debugger-info-modules from all nightly and release mozconfigs for WinCE

Do we want to take this for 3.6b1 ?

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Comment on attachment 406204 [details] [diff] [review]
Remove --enable-debugger-info-modules from all nightly and release mozconfigs for WinCE

Ted tells me that this doesn't need approval.

changeset:   1612:2600932e8f40

Comment 4

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

The cab for the mozilla-central nightly shrank from 31.2M to 28.0M.