That would be nice to do :-) - moving these larger generic build-time dependencies to being downloaded with bootstrap could really help improve build times!
That being said, IIRC there is some interest in building pre-export/export build capability for other more-mozilla-specific/unstable tooling. On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 5:53 AM Xidorn Quan <m...@upsuper.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, at 10:19 PM, Emilio Cobos Álvarez wrote: > > Adding support for general crates.io crates to be built this way and > > appear somewhere on the objdir seemed way more build system hackery than > > what I could do in a reasonable timeframe with my limited knowledge of > > the build system. So requiring the binary to be there was the easiest > > way I got it to work. > > > > That being said, if some build system peer is able to make something > > like that work, it'd be easy to switch to it if wanted. > > No, don't do that. Running stuff before export is blocking almost > everything in the build process, and building anything nontrivial there > would simply make the build slower with no parallelism at all. > > I'm actually thinking about pulling bindgen out from build-dependency and > make it use binary as well. bindgen was made a build-dependency and build > in the process because at that time, bindgen wasn't stable enough, and we > usually need to fix it for stylo to work. But these days we no longer do > that a lot, so it should be fine to just use prebuilt binary. > > - Xidorn > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
