Hi everyone, Tup is a modern build system that enables fast and correct builds. I'm pleased to announce the availability of Tup for building Firefox on Linux. Compared to Make, building with Tup will result in faster incremental build times and reduce the need for clobber builds. See the in-tree docs for details [1].
We announced this on dev-builds[2] a few weeks ago, and addressed much of the feedback from early adopters. Now we’re looking for more users to try it out and let us know what issues you have, and whether or not it improves your development workflow. Quick howto: You’ll need to install the Tup executable, as well as the nightly rust/cargo toolchain: cd ~/.mozbuild && mach artifact toolchain --from-build linux64-tup rustup default nightly-2018-09-16 * Note that normally “rustup default nightly” would suffice, but until https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/6082 is in nightly, try 2018-09-16 for now. Your mozconfig needs to describe how to find the executable if it’s not in your PATH, and enable the Tup backend: export TUP=~/.mozbuild/tup/tup ac_add_options --enable-build-backends=Tup If you have any issues, feel free to file a bug blocking “buildtup” [3], or contact mshal or chmanchester in #build on IRC. [1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/tup.html [2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.builds/c4rxss-ScmM/8M8fo_uzDAAJ [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=buildtup Thanks! -Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
