On Friday, September 28, 2018 at 3:56:45 PM UTC-4, Michael Shal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Tup is a modern build system that enables fast and correct builds. I'm
> pleased to announce the availability of Tup for building Firefox on Linux.
> Compared to Make, building with Tup will result in faster incremental build
> times and reduce the need for clobber builds. See the in-tree docs for
> details [1].
> 
> We announced this on dev-builds[2] a few weeks ago, and addressed much of
> the feedback from early adopters. Now we’re looking for more users to try
> it out and let us know what issues you have, and whether or not it improves
> your development workflow.
> 
> Quick howto:
> 
> You’ll need to install the Tup executable, as well as the nightly
> rust/cargo toolchain:
> 
> cd ~/.mozbuild && mach artifact toolchain --from-build linux64-tup
> rustup default nightly-2018-09-16
> 
> *  Note that normally “rustup default nightly” would suffice, but until
> https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/6082 is in nightly, try
> 2018-09-16 for now.
> 
> Your mozconfig needs to describe how to find the executable if it’s not in
> your PATH, and enable the Tup backend:
> 
> export TUP=~/.mozbuild/tup/tup
> ac_add_options --enable-build-backends=Tup
> 
> If you have any issues, feel free to file a bug blocking “buildtup” [3], or
> contact mshal or chmanchester in #build on IRC.
> 
> [1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/tup.html
> 
> [2]
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.builds/c4rxss-ScmM/8M8fo_uzDAAJ
> 
> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=buildtup
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Mike

Thank you to everyone for your work to test this new build backend.  We have 
put this work on hold for now as we address on other priorities.  We will have 
an update on the state of this work in early 2019.

Thanks,
Kim
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