Thank you Miklos and Benjamin. Regards, George
On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 4:46 AM Benjamin Beurdouche <beurdou...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 6 Apr 2022, at 08:17, Miklos Vajna <vmik...@vmiklos.hu> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 10:41:07AM -0700, George Lee < > george.t2....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is it currently preferred to use gyp, gyp-next, or gn to build > NSS/NSPR? Or > >> maybe it doesn't matter much? > > It doesn’t matter much at the moment. I haven’t tested gn but I would be > surprised if it worked. > > > https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/security/nss/build.html is a bit > > confusing regarding this: > > > > "Please, note that we gyp is currently unmaintained and that our support > > for gyp-next is experimental and might be unstable." > > > > In practice I tried gyp on Linux and gyp-next on macOS, and both seem to > > work fine, when building 3.77. > > What is meant there is that: > 1. NSS currently uses “gyp” to build > 2. “gyp” is not maintained by Google anymore > 3. “gyp-next” should work for NSS but if Node break backwards compat we > might not see the build fail because we still use “gyp” in our CI. > > That move to “gyp-next” will likely happen this year, but this is not a > priority for us. > > Best, > Benjamin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "dev-tech-crypto@mozilla.org" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dev-tech-crypto+unsubscr...@mozilla.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-tech-crypto/CAEt1p9AEpvzA%2Bv8SaYddPRJfPnbvQUAm6QJYGNcm_a3xr6c_3Q%40mail.gmail.com.
