Below is a highlight of all work the build peers have done since the last report[1].
The build peers have been working to get faster builds in automation as well as for local developers. We have landed changes to stop generating XPIDL sources in artifact builds[2], which is a performance and correctness improvement. We have also been working hard at removing the legacy m4+shell autoconf mess. We are now below 70% of the size when we started this project. Since the last update we have removed over 3000 lines[3]. Build tasks in taskcluster are now using c4.4xlarge instances instead of c3.2xlarge[4] - builds are faster by around 20%[5]. As part of the work to allow us to use an alternate build backend we have managed to get Firefox building NSS with GYP on Linux[6]. Other platforms are to follow before we land this change. We have also been reviewing changes to build XPIDL sources with TUP[7]. Support for building Rust sources via Cargo has been landed in mozilla-central[8]. For more information read the Dev.Platform post[9] Last but not least, our intern project to use msys2 has reached its goal. The new msys2 environment now builds on mozilla-central. We will be sending out a separate email about this for those who would like to try it out. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/i0rRsYgnXDM/O5DxU-PqBQAJ [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1240134 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292463 [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1290282 [5] https://mzl.la/2c5bjSR [6] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237872 [7] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1293448 [8] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231764 [9] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/ZgkBLZb6dtc/oWBE_nUxAQAJ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
