Well this is pretty sweet. On Mac, does mach do the right thing when you rebuild browser, does it also rebuild browser/app so your application bundle gets updated?
Thanks for doing this, Matt! Rob On 2013-03-16, at 3:48 PM, Matt Brubeck <mbrub...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I recently landed a new feature for the "mach" build tool [1]. You can now > run mach from anywhere in the mozilla source tree. > > To get started, add mach to your $PATH. You can do this by changing the PATH > environment variable to include the mozilla source directory, or by copying > the "mach" script from your source directory to a location like > /usr/local/bin. > > Then you can run mach commands from anywhere in your source directory, and > you can use paths within your current directory. For example, if you are > working on some devtools code you might run commands like: > > cd browser/devtools > > # Rebuild the code in browser/devtools/webconsole: > mach build webconsole > # Run browser-chrome tests from browser/devtools/webconsole/test: > mach mochitest-browser webconsole/test > > # Most commands work the same no matter where you run them: > mach clobber > mach build # Do a full rebuild > mach package > mach install > > You can also run "mach" within an objdir. If you have multiple objdirs with > different mozconfigs, mach automatically defaults to the mozconfig that built > the current objdir. This means you can switch between configurations as > easily as: > > cd obj-debug > mach build > mach xpcshell-test > > cd ../obj-optimized > mach build > mach xpcshell-test > > (Note: the automatically-detected mozconfig is used as a default, but you can > still override it by explicitly setting the MOZCONFIG environment variable.) > > The "mach" script is now just a wrapper; it loads the actual mach code and > configuration from whichever source directory you run it in. So you can add > mach to your path once and it should work with any current or future > mozilla-central directory. (For older trees, like the current aurora or beta > repos, you still need to run mach the old way, using "./mach" in the top > source directory.) > > For development details, please see bugs 840588 and 840690 (but note that the > feature changed a bit since those bugs were first filed). Huge thanks to gps > and all the other people who helped in the design and implementation of this > feature! > > [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Developer_Guide/mach > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840588 > [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840690 > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
