Support for test plugins landed on inbound earlier this afternoon. This required modifying rules for installation paths, so some cached archives will be invalidated by this change.
Please `rm ~/.mozbuild/package-frontend/*.processed.jar` after pulling to avoid build bustage as a result of this change. An automatic solution for re-generating caches in cases like these is tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1240922 Chris On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Nicholas Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Nicholas Alexander < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I just landed Bug 1207890 [1] and Bug 1216817 [2]. Together, they >> implement Firefox "artifact builds" for Mac OS X Desktop. Artifact builds >> download pre-built binary artifacts (like libxul) rather than compiling >> them locally, trading download bandwidth for developer machine time. If >> you work on the Firefox Desktop front-end on Mac OS X -- meaning you're >> modifying JavaScript, XHTML, and CSS, and you're building on Mac OS X -- >> this new build mode is meant for you. Locally, I produce a working Mac OS >> X Firefox in about a minute. >> >> I've written a quick start guide at >> http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2015/12/31/firefox-artifact-builds-for-mac/ >> and will be updating documentation in the next few weeks. >> >> I thoroughly expect issues in the wild. Please file tickets depending on >> Bug 1207890 [1] and CC me. Discussion is best on dev-builds. >> > > Thanks to the fine work of Chris Manchester, we should now have artifact > builds on Desktop that install the test harness executables (like xpcshell > and certutil) needed to run xpcshell and mochitests locally [1]. In > addition, thanks to Dave Townsend for filing a ticket to track installing > the test plugins as well -- they should be in place now too [2]. > > Please test and file fallout and follow-ups against [1]. > > Yours, > Nick > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238320 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1240239 > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > >
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