On 2/6/14, 11:21 AM, Dave Townsend wrote:
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Gregory Szorc <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 2/6/14, 9:23 AM, Dave Townsend wrote: I assume the second section is actually "getcwd() not in objdir but is in srcdir"? Yes. 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. mach needs to "bind" to a source directory because it needs to load Python files from it. The "mach" script at the root of the checkout (which can be symlinked or even copied to your heart's content) has a mechanism for discovering the source directory. It then calls a routine in the source directory which completes the bootstrap process. If no source directory can be found, the mach script aborts. This commonly happens if you run |mach| outside a source directory. We /can/ add a facility for discovering source directories when "mach" is not inside of one. If someone says it is a hard workflow requirement, I reckon it will be implemented somehow. I think perhaps I wasn't clear. I'd expect "getcwd() not in objdir nor srcdir" to have as the first option "look for the srcdir based on the location of the called mach script". So I can do "<srcdir>/mach" and have it work, or an alias to mach or something else.
No, you were clear. I forgot to answer that part of the question. mach looks at argv[0] as a possible srcdir location. Or at least it should. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
