781431 - A few minor build system improvements

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

Attachment: patch v1

1. mozconfig2client-mk still refers to $HOME/.mozconfig, even though we removed it a while ago. Thanks to Neil for pointing it out.
2. MOZCONFIG_FIND and MOZCONFIG_MODULES are no longer used by client.mk.
3. The CONFIG_GUESS script runs 7 or 8 times every time client.mk is run. It slows Windows builds without an explicit object directory down by around 10-15 seconds, at least on my computer. On the other hand, if an objdir is specified this patch will slow that down by a bit. I really wish Make had variables that are lazy but evaluated only once, but I'll take what I can get.

I'm going to need to check this patch into comm-central as well, to avoid orange there.

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

There are recipes for lazy variables in make, such as this one I'm using in debian:
lazy = $(eval $(1) = $$(if $$(___$(1)),,$$(eval ___$(1) := $(2)))$$(___$(1)))

Downside is that it requires quoting:
$(call lazy,foo,$$(shell foo))

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

On the other hand, considering CONFIG_GUESS is always used once... (for the CRLF check)

Comment 3

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

BTW, if you want to remove one more case of config.guess running, you can add --target=$(CONFIG_GUESS) to CONFIGURE_ARGS

Comment 4

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/26b8e99cb58b

Comment 5

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/26b8e99cb58b