Re: 32-bit Windows builds will fail.

2015-02-27 Thread Mike Hoye
On 2015-02-27 8:46 AM, Ben Hearsum wrote: On 2015-02-26 05:57 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: Instead, I propose that we stand up a variety of old, slow, minimum-spec "approved" development boxes, build on them daily. If forward progress means we need to abandon a category of developers' machines, I ask th

Re: 32-bit Windows builds will fail.

2015-02-27 Thread Ben Hearsum
On 2015-02-26 05:57 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > Instead, I propose that we stand up a variety of old, slow, minimum-spec > "approved" development boxes, build on them daily. If forward progress > means we need to abandon a category of developers' machines, I ask that > we try to do that with as much tra

Re: 32-bit Windows builds will fail.

2015-02-26 Thread Kyle Huey
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:17 PM, mhoye wrote: > 1110236 Ah, I see. So the problem is 32 bit Windows on 64 bit capable hardware? Is that common? I was thinking we were dealing with 32 bit hardware, which is probably so ancient at this point that building Firefox would be unpleasant regardless

Re: 32-bit Windows builds will fail.

2015-02-26 Thread mhoye
This was brought to our attention by a community contributor named Ankit in bug 1110236. - mhoye On Feb 26, 2015, 6:06 PM, at 6:06 PM, Kyle Huey wrote: >Is there evidence that real humans are affected by this? > >- Kyle > >On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > >> >> As far as

Re: 32-bit Windows builds will fail.

2015-02-26 Thread Xidorn Quan
We will probably need to integrate telemetry to mach :) On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Kyle Huey wrote: > Is there evidence that real humans are affected by this? > > - Kyle > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > > > > > As far as I can tell from Bug 1110236 and my own testi

Re: 32-bit Windows builds will fail.

2015-02-26 Thread Kyle Huey
Is there evidence that real humans are affected by this? - Kyle On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mike Hoye wrote: > > As far as I can tell from Bug 1110236 and my own testing, it's no longer > possible to build Firefox on 32-bit Windows systems. Recent changes to how > we use our linker will re

32-bit Windows builds will fail.

2015-02-26 Thread Mike Hoye
As far as I can tell from Bug 1110236 and my own testing, it's no longer possible to build Firefox on 32-bit Windows systems. Recent changes to how we use our linker will reliably cause the error described in the bug. I've filed bug 1137346 to that effect; I don't see an answer, and I suspec