Nemeski to [email protected] • edit-24 months agoFirefox development is moving from Mercurial to Gitbugzilla.mozilla.orgmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernewslinux
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•4 months agoThey plan on doing that change since over a year lol And their build docs are incredibly confusing, I have no idea how distro packagers can do this. I built Firefox from source for a while, and it just broke after a while.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•4 months agoI’m guessing someone figured it out once, and everyone just copies from them…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•4 months agoI mean they have some form of docs, and I got it to build. But hell even installing mercurial is totally weird.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•4 months agoBtw, you can see the build flags your distro uses from within FF, I think it is about:build
They plan on doing that change since over a year lol
And their build docs are incredibly confusing, I have no idea how distro packagers can do this.
I built Firefox from source for a while, and it just broke after a while.
I’m guessing someone figured it out once, and everyone just copies from them…
I mean they have some form of docs, and I got it to build. But hell even installing mercurial is totally weird.
Btw, you can see the build flags your distro uses from within FF, I think it is
about:build