773441 - Get the all the necessary libs to build b2g onto build machines

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P4)

Description

[Malini Das [:mdas] - Away, not checking bugmail]

Building B2G requires quite a few libraries installed. For one, we need the ones listed here: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g#linux and https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/B2G_build_prerequisites#Requirements_for_Linux

On top of this, there are a bunch of 32-bit libraries we need to install, but there is no canonical list of these libraries :( We tend to discover what we need by running the build script and seeing where it fails...

Comment 1

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

I did make a list of libs needed on Amazon EC2 VM's, here:  https://intranet.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/B2G_Automation/Setting_Up_Amazon_VMs

Naturally, this list will be different on different linux distributions, and is subject to change at any time.

Comment 2

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

We're working on pulling all the stuff from the b2g repositories into snapshots that we can use. Extra dependencies will be specified in the mock configs for these jobs.

Comment 3

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

(In reply to Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin) from comment #1)
> I did make a list of libs needed on Amazon EC2 VM's, here: 
> https://intranet.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/B2G_Automation/Setting_Up_Amazon_VMs
> 
> Naturally, this list will be different on different linux distributions, and
> is subject to change at any time.

per mtg w/jgriffin just now, RelEng will give jgriffin a loaner "standard linux64" AWS instance to see what else is needed for emulator B2G builds.

Comment 4

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

NB - the any additional dependencies should be installed into the mock environment, and not onto the machine. These will be part of the mozharness configs for the b2g builds.

Comment 5

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

I think we have what we need here.