I assume the second section is actually "getcwd() not in objdir but is in srcdir"?
I'm crazy enough to want to be able to call mach when getcwd() isn't either the objdir or srcdir. I have many of both and use various environment flags to say which is active currently. Perhaps it's implicit, but I don't see the option to use the directory that mach is in to find the srcdir, that would work fine for me and solve the need for my current scripts to change directory just to call mach. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Gavin Sharp <ga...@gavinsharp.com> wrote: > Whose workflow requires calling mach not in an objdir or srcdir? That > seems crazy and no one should do it! > > Similarly, it seems like all of the ambiguous cases you mention should > be aborts, because I don't know of any reasonable cases where someone > would be in that situation, and "picking one" just leads to > hard-to-predict results. > > (Given the audience I'm sure the above must be dismissive of > _someone_'s Important Workflow - I would love to discover whose it > is!) > > Gavin > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > There are a number of people who can't use mach because of the way it > does > > environment detection (e.g. how it resolves object directories and other > > paths). > > > > There are numerous bugs on the issue. We even have bug 912114 tracking > > everywhere that mach and the build system is doing something wrong or > > inefficient. There are many workflows and thus code paths that need > > considered. It's a complicated problem to solve. > > > > I've typed up a proposal at [1] that I believe will fulfill the > requirements > > of most of the people who can't use mach today because it isn't > compatible > > with their workflow. Please leave comments on that pad or reply here with > > suggestions for improvement. > > > > I hope to have a solution landed in the next few weeks. > > > > [1] https://etherpad.mozilla.org/o5igfRCiJv > > _______________________________________________ > > firefox-dev mailing list > > firefox-...@mozilla.org > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
