83225 - One should be able to build NSS outside the source tree.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Build, defect, P1)

Description

[Wan-Teh Chang]

One should be able to build NSS outside the source tree.
This has two advantages.  One, the source tree can be
made read-only.  Two, this enables us to integrate the
NSS build with Mozilla client's objdir build better.

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Attachment: Proposed patch (to be applied to NSS_3_2_BRANCH).

Comment 2

[Wan-Teh Chang]

I attached my proposed patch containing Bob's BUILD_TREE
and cross-compilation support for NSS_3_2_BRANCH.  Please
review it.  Thank you.

Comment 3

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Attachment: Proposed patch, version 2 (to be applied to NSS_3_2_BRANCH).

Comment 4

[Wan-Teh Chang]

I've verified my patch on Windows, Linux, and Solaris SPARC.

I just created NSS_3_2_BUILD_TREE_BRANCH, which contains my
proposed patch.

Michael and Javier, could you test it on OS/2?
Colin, could you test it on OpenVMS?

To test it, edit mozilla/client.mk and change NSS_CLIENT_TAG
to NSS_3_2_BUILD_TREE_BRANCH.  Then say
    gmake -f client.mk checkout

Then, apply the patch for bug 82324
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=36981).

Then configure and make.

It should work out of the box on OpenVMS but may need some
tweaking on OS/2.

Thank you for your help.

Comment 5

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Javier Pedemonte noted in bug 82324:
    This and 83225 build and work fine for os/2
    with no changes.

I guess [e-mail] don't look at
NSS bugs.  I'll send them email.

Comment 6

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

a=blizzard on behalf of drivers for the trunk

Comment 7

[Wan-Teh Chang]

I checked in proposed patch v2 (id=36979) on the NSS_3_2_BRANCH
and moved the NSS_CLIENT_TAG to include it.

I still need to implement bryner's suggestion: put the object
files in objdir/security/nss as opposed to objdir/nss.  I will
do that next.

The NSS_3_2_BUILD_TREE_BRANCH is now dead.  Don't use it.

Comment 8

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Marked the bug fixed.  I'm going to address the objdir/security/nss
issue as a separate bug.

Comment 9

[Wan-Teh Chang]

This fix is not in 3.2.2.  This bug is about transplanting
a 3.3 feature (which is supposed to be a separate bug) to
the 3.2 branch.  I'm setting the target milestone to 3.2.3
(even though we are not planning to release any new 3.2.x)
for lack of a better target milestone.