On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 12:56 PM Michael Shal <ms...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 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. > This fix is now in nightly rustc (starting with 5597ee8a6 2018-10-03). You can now run `rustup default nightly` to track the current rustc nightly and build with tup. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
