861212 - MDN page for b2g refers to b2g-bin executable but this does not exist and does not seem to be needed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Firefox OS, defect)

Description

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

The MDN page at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Using_the_B2G_desktop_client says that to specify a profile you need to run the "b2g-bin" binary with a -profile option. After I followed the steps to build the desktop B2G app on my Mac OS X, there was no b2g-bin binary in the location indicated. There was a b2g binary, which worked as intended, so presumably the instructions are just out of date. I don't know if other things on that page or in that section need updating too so I don't really want to change it myself.

Comment 1

[Ray Kiddy]

This is also true for a b2g built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. No b2g-bin binary but calling b2g with the -profile option works fine.

Comment 2

[Ting-Yu Lin [:TYLin] (PDT, UTC-7)]

I've updated the path to b2g and revise the section containing b2g-bin for the "Running on Linux". 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Using_the_B2G_desktop_client#Running_on_Linux

The documentation for other platform such as Mac needs to be revised though.

Comment 3

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Kartikaya. You are right - the binary should just be b2g, not b2g-bin. I just tested it on Mac OSX, Windows and Linux.

I've updated the article, new URL is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building_the_B2G_desktop_client (the old one redirects to this.)

Let me know if you see anything else that needs updating.