client.mk has existed since 1998 ( https://hg.mozilla.org/experimental/mozilla-central-cvs/rev/0a5e1fa423bd). Before `mach`, client.mk was the recommended way to build Firefox and perform other build tasks. client.mk has rarely changed in recent years because the build system maintainers have been working around it and because not much has changed around how the very early parts of "invoke the build system" work.
The build system maintainers are making a significant push towards supporting building Firefox without GNU make in this and future quarters. Since client.mk is a make file and we want to not require make to build Firefox, client.mk is incompatible with our vision for the future of the Firefox build system. Furthermore, client.mk represents an ancient piece of build system infrastructure and its convoluted content creates consternation and inhibits forward progress. For these reasons, I'm announcing the intent to remove client.mk. If you have tools, infrastructure, workflows, etc that use client.mk - or any direct use of `make` for that matter - please transition them to `mach` commands and/or check with a build peer regarding your use case. You can file bugs regarding client.mk dependencies against bug 1412398. Thank you for your understanding. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
