558837 - should start building Mac OS X 64 bit nightlies

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Messaging Graveyard :: Release Engineering, defect)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Firefox is now doing this on (as I understand it) all the branches.  It'd be great if we did it too.

I don't think this blocks 3.1, however.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Firefox is now doing this on (as I understand it) all the branches.  It'd be
> great if we did it too.
> 
> I don't think this blocks 3.1, however.

What's our story here, would we support these builds fully ?

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Firefox is now doing this on (as I understand it) all the branches.  It'd be
> great if we did it too.

I'm surprised they've done it on all branches. I can see the builds for FF 3.5 and FF 3.6 but not the builders.

If we do it, then I'd say not 3.0.x as that's in maintenance mode and I don't think we can care about 64-bit builds there.

Adding bug 537496 as a dependency, as we know that comm-central won't build with Mac 64 bit.

Also adding bug 519060 as that's where m-c has and is still doing 64 bit mac support.

> I don't think this blocks 3.1, however.

Agreed. Also, IMO the priority should be Linux 64 bit builders and unit tests (bug 486710) as we do already have Linux distros shipping 64-bit versions of Thunderbird.

(In reply to comment #1)
> What's our story here, would we support these builds fully ?

I think that should be something along the lines of: Until we ship these with a major release, we're producing them for tests purposes. If there's problems, don't expect us to jump on them straight away. Don't be surprised if we ask you to test a 32-bit version.

Comment 3

[Nomis101]

For Mac you need Gecko 1.9.3 and 10.6 (Bug 553429) to build in x86_64. And at the moment only 64bit-only builds are supported, for 32/64bit binaries you need at the moment an direful hack. You also need at the moment an direful hack if you want build a 64bit version of Thunderbird (and this build than is somewhat incomplete).

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Initial version of mac 64 bit mozconfigs added to buildbot-configs ready for when the builders are ready:

http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/e45f4db7fb87

Comment 5

[Nomis101]

Oh, that we now have mac 64bit mozconfigs for TB, is this an indication that somebody is working (will work) on completing the mailnews 64bit support? :-)

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Oh, that we now have mac 64bit mozconfigs for TB, is this an indication that
> somebody is working (will work) on completing the mailnews 64bit support? :-)

We want to get 64 bit support running, but the bugs are currently un-owned afaik. So any help with them would be appreciated (please comment on respective bugs though).

Comment 8

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Attachment: [checked in] Set minimum versions correctly per platform

We'll need this patch when we're ready to switch to 64 bit nightlies - it sets the minimum versions correctly so that Thunderbird will run in 32 bit mode on 10.5 (and, of course, 64 bit mode on 10.6).

Comment 9

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Blocking the next trunk release on this, as core gecko no longer supports ppc/32 bit, so therefore we shouldn't.

Comment 10

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Comment on attachment 485172 [details] [diff] [review]
[checked in] Set minimum versions correctly per platform

I think we can land this now, even if this breaks ppc, we're going to be doing that shortly with the switch to 32/64 bit builds anyway.

Comment 11

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Comment on attachment 485172 [details] [diff] [review]
[checked in] Set minimum versions correctly per platform

Checked in: http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/ebf634ec0c40

Comment 12

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

The Mac builds have been switched to 32/64 bit on trunk.

See notices on tb-planning for more information: http://groups.google.com/group/tb-planning/browse_frm/thread/7e156b7c252afd17

We've not generated the first nightly just yet, so leaving open for a bit longer.

Comment 13

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Nightlies now have updates on both 32 and 64 bit parts of the builds.

The remaining issues like lack of builders will be covered in separate bugs, so this bug is now fixed.

Bug 613211 covers getting the automated tests running on the 32 bit architecture (currently they are only run on the 64 bit side of the build).