Chris, I get this confused as well.

Perhaps we can have a section that flips the docs from being about the
flags to instead be about the outcome you want, and show the combinations
that get you there?



On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 4:30 PM Chris Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

> Darn it, I remember you explaining that very thing to me a while ago, but
> I hadn’t twigged we were talking about the same thing here! I’ve updated
> the notes again.
>
>
> Chris Mills
>  Senior tech writer || Mozilla
> developer.mozilla.org || MDN
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>
> > On 29 Oct 2015, at 16:18, Julien Wajsberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Actually the issue is different.
> >
> > With DEVICE_DEBUG you don't get the useful httpd.js extension...
> Actually DEBUG and DEVICE_DEBUG are 2 completely different options. Yes,
> this is definitely unclear.
> >
> > What you likely wanted is DEBUG=1 DESKTOP=0. The trick here is that
> DEBUG=1 implies DESKTOP=1, but DESKTOP=1 is completely broken, we don't
> intend to fix it, and it should be deleted.
> >
> > Hope this helps...
> >
> > Le 29/10/2015 12:02, Shian-Yow Wu a écrit :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> When building gaia with "DEBUG=1", the B2G desktop gets empty
> homescreen.
> >> There was a bug[1] filed but not been addressed so far.
> >>
> >> To avoid such problem, we can remove the 'DEBUG=1' or change it to
> 'DEVICE_DEBUG=1', then run B2G desktop using 'gaia/profile' instead of
> 'gaia/profile-debug'.  See [2] for the difference between DEBUG and
> DEVICE_DEBUG of gaia build.
> >>
> >> Probably we should mention this in MDN[3] before the issue got fixed.
> >>
> >> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1180103
> >> [2]
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia/make_options_reference#Debug_make
> >> [3]
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Building_the_Firefox_OS_simulator
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >> ShianYow
> >>
> >>
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