1202977 - "mach build devtools" should do the right thing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

After bug 912121, we'll need to use "mach build devtools/*" to build the full tree.  We have

/devtools/client
/devtools/server
/devtools/shared

but no products include just "/devtools" (in order to package client and server separately), so no Makefile is created for that dir.

We should make some kind of change so "mach build devtools" works.

Comment 1

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

Maybe the ./mach build command could somehow detect this and transform it into "devtools/*"

Comment 2

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

:glandium, any moz.build tricks I can use to make this happen?

It would be developer friendly if "mach build devtools" built all 3 subdirs, but there is no moz.build file the says "DIRS += ['/devtools'] (instead each subdirectory is included separately).

Comment 3

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

How about just using `mach build faster`?

Comment 4

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

(In reply to Mike Hommey [:glandium] from comment #3)
> How about just using `mach build faster`?

Yes, that's probably good enough for most DevTools purposes. :)

Comment 5

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

As a side effect of the implementation of bug 1203159, `mach build devtools` will also work once that bug lands.

Comment 6

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Fixed by bug 1203159.