Mozilla Release Build Notes

This is a scratchpad for notes on how mozilla.org configures its build machines for doing release builds (around the time of the Mozilla 1.7 and Aviary 1.0 branches).

Machine configuration

Windows builds

Linux/GTK1 builds

• Install Red Hat 7.1 + all errata (although we've done some releases with 7.3)
• build and install binutils 2.13.2.1 configure with "--prefix=/usr/local/binutils-2.13.2.1"
• add /usr/local/binutils/2.13.2.1/bin to start of PATH for build environment
• build (with above binutils installed and at start of path) and install gcc 3.2.3, configured with "--prefix=/usr/local/gcc-3.2.3 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-threads=posix --disable-shared --enable-languages=c++ --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --with-ld=/usr/local/binutils-2.13.2.1/bin/ld --with-as=/usr/local/binutils-2.13.2.1/bin/as"
• add gcc bin directory to start of PATH for build environment

Linux/GTK2 builds

• Install Red Hat 8.0 + all errata
• build and install gcc 3.3.4, configured with "--prefix=/usr/local/gcc-3.3.4 --enable-languages=c++ --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-system-zlib --enable-threads=posix --enable-shared --disable-checking --disable-libunwind-exceptions"
• add gcc bin directory to start of PATH for build environment
• upgrade glib2 to 2.0.7 by building RPM from spec file in source tarball (we have a copy of this RPM in /builds/cltbld on lhasa)
• edit headers manually to fix:
/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-file-info.h:46: error: comma at end of enumerator list
/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-xfer.h:81: error: comma at end of enumerator list
/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0/libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-xfer.h:90: error: comma at end of enumerator list

See Red Hat 8 notes for more details.

Mac OS X builds

• When building on 10.3, install the XCode cross-development package and set the flag --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.2.8.sdk in the system's mozconfig.

Build configuration