On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 12:31:02AM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > Assuming it sticks, bug 896797 just landed in inbound and changes > how EXPORTS/headers are installed. This may impact your developer > workflow if you modify EXPORTS in a moz.build file to add/remove > headers. > > Previously, headers were installed incrementally as part of make > directory traversal. In the new world, we write out a "manifest" of > headers when the build config is read from moz.build files and then > we install them in bulk at the top of the build. You'll see a new > message like: > > From ./dist/include: Kept 3022 existing; Added/updated 0; Removed > 678 files and 5 directories. > > This is the rsync-like process applying that manifest and reporting > that 3022 files are unchanged and 678 files were unaccounted for, so > they were purged from dist/include. > > The important developer change here is that a non top-level make > will no longer install headers. So if you add a new .h to an EXPORTS > in a moz.build file, you'll need to perform a top-level/full build > for it to be installed.
If you don't want to do a full top-level build, you can also just do make -C objdir export (or mach build export). Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
