On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:21 PM Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:10 PM Thomas Daede <tda...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > There is a toolchain build for nasm for windows: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511224 > > > > If getting a newer nasm version is inconvenient for a majority of linux > > users, the toolchain build could be used to produce nasm binaries for > > mach bootstrap as well. > > I would certainly prefer this, and having this work smoothly would > also be good for new contributors. Having to build and install extra > packages is always a hassle.
+1 Debian stable is in this boat as well - the latest nasm version in its package repositories is 2.12. This is the first time, as far as I'm aware, that building Firefox requires manually building another package - everything else is taken care of by |mach bootstrap|. Thanks, Botond _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
