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** Multiple products in CVS
 
** Multiple products in CVS
 
** Thousands of Makefiles
 
** Thousands of Makefiles
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* Managing the chaos
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** [http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Firefox Tinderbox]
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** [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ LXR]
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* Basic build tools
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** [http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/ autoconf] - managing differences between platforms and selecting build options
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** [http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ GNU Make] - following rules to build things based on changed files
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* Your build experiences
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* Cross-platform builds -- what's different on different platforms?
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** VMs to the rescue
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* Deconstructing [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Configuring_Build_Options mozconfig]
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** Sorting through [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/configure.in configure.in]
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* What the heck is [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/client.mk client.mk] for?
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** Fancy things you can do
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* Looking at some Makefiles
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** Plumbing the depths of [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/config/rules.mk rules.mk]
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** [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_Mozilla%27s_build_system_works Use the docs!]
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** [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Category:Build_Glossary The Build Glossary]
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* The future of the build system
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** Buildbot
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** [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Build:Configure_System_Rewrite Giving the build system a facelift]
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* Breakpad and Crash Reporting

Latest revision as of 08:06, 20 September 2007

Talk Details

  • Date: Sept 20, 2007
  • Speaker: Ted Mielczarek, Mozilla Corporation

Notes

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