On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 04:16:01PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote:
client.mk has existed since 1998 (
https://hg.mozilla.org/experimental/mozilla-central-cvs/rev/0a5e1fa423bd).
Before `mach`, client.mk was the recommended way to build Firefox and
perform other build tasks. client.mk has rarely changed in recent years
because the build system maintainers have been working around it and
because not much has changed around how the very early parts of "invoke the
build system" work.
The build system maintainers are making a significant push towards
supporting building Firefox without GNU make in this and future quarters.
I think I speak for all of us when I say: \o/
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