Any update here? Is there a bug on file for making bootstrap install a usable nasm?
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 3:28 PM Andi-Bogdan Postelnicu <a...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > I can confirm that we are having the same problem on Debian stretch and > before manually building nasm we had to disable av1 in order to be able to > move further with the static analysis builds for coverity. > > > On 28 Dec 2018, at 22:19, Botond Ballo <bba...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > >> 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 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform