Hi folks, I've just pushed several tickets to fx-team that rewrite how Fennec finds build time dependencies. The changes should merge to mozilla-central tomorrow.
ACTION REQUIRED Run |mach bootstrap|, choose Firefox for Android, and in your mozconfig, replace --with-android-sdk=/path/to/sdk/platforms/android-* with --with-android-sdk=/path/to/sdk DISCUSSION These changes pin the Android libraries [1] and parts of the Android SDK toolchain [2] to known good values, and update |mach bootstrap| to install these versions [3] [4]. These changes should: 1) Unify local developers and automation builders on a single Android SDK version and Android SDK toolchain. We should see far fewer build configuration issues. This should particularly improve life for new volunteers coming to Fennec and sporadic contributors outside of the main Fennec development team. 2) Expose build configuration issues early in the build process (at configure-time, rather than at (the end of) build-time. 3) Make Fennec resilient in the face of Google's ever changing Android packaging. 4) Allow us to move our dependencies forward faster by letting us use AAR files shipped with the Android SDK. 5) Save us roughly 1Mb of APK space (!). In the event of fallout, please file tickets blocking Bug 1108782 [1] and needinfo me (nalexander). FUTURE WORK I'll be updating documentation on the Wiki over the next few days. I imagine there will be fallout from the changes (in particular, this hasn't been tested on Linux). And there are a number of tickets blocked on this work. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mike Hommey endured multiple rounds of reviews *after* teaching me some m4 and autoconf. Sebastian and Mike Comella have tested and reviewed this work at various phases. Thank you all. Yours, Nick Alexander [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1108782 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194365 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171232 [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204260
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