Shining Some Light on the Mozilla Build System

Talk Details

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

Notes

• Ted Mielczarek - ted@mielczarek.org
  • Build system peer, Breakpad stuff, etc
• Building software
• It's all about scope
  • Three major platforms supported, multiple other platforms usable
  • Multiple products in CVS
  • Thousands of Makefiles
• Basic tools
  • autoconf - managing differences between platforms and selecting build options
  • GNU Make - following rules to build things based on changed files
  • Tinderbox
• Your build experiences
• Deconstructing mozconfig
  • Sorting through configure.in
• What the heck is client.mk for?
  • Fancy things you can do
• Looking at some Makefiles
  • Plumbing the depths of rules.mk
• The future of the build system: Buildbot
• Breakpad and Crash Reporting