799095 - Enable Pymake on Mozilla 17 and ESR17

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

This is something that Callek and Standard8 would like to do. We need a few patches ported over from 18 for that.

Comment 1

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

Depending on tracking bug for 19-nov-2012 migration work.  Please unblock if this is incorrect.

Comment 2

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

sid0, callek: will we have a patch ready this week?

Comment 3

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

I haven't worked on the pymake stuff directly so if it was me I'd be unlikely to have a patch ready this week. I just know from a releng standpoint (both SeaMonkey and ours) I'd like it.

I am a c-c build peer, so I can [help] review/approve stuff.

Comment 4

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Ok, so to set expectations:

Current Todo:

* (Comm-* Build Team): Write the build-system patches, get review, approval and land on Gecko 17 comm branch[es]
* (releng) Once above is done, enable pymake on comm-release/gecko17 comm branches

As a SeaMonkey driver, I would be willing/wanting to approve this patch for -release/whatever as soon as it is ready for the branch, but I don't personally have the time to work on this one at the moment. So hoping sid (or someone) can figure it out and get it fixed soon!

Comment 5

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

Since bug 799095 missed the 17 release, we're going to go ahead without pymake enabled and instead target ESR 17.0.1 and 18.0 mainstream.

We *can* turn it on prior to esr 17.0.1, but its not urgent to do so.

Comment 6

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

I'm pretty sure all the patches for this have landed. Please turn it on on the buildbot side.

Comment 7

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

The only thing that's probably left is backing out bug 585011. I'm not sure if the backout made it to the 17 branch.

Comment 8

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Given that we haven't done this yet, I don't think we ever will. We'll just have to live with GNU make on esr17 until it dies.