Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox

Re:Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox by zerkten on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @09:57AM (#21387187)

Could the Bazel folks better define the composition of their blob? That way they can distribute their blob, but someone could substitute for another instance of the JVM. I'm assuming ownership of this lies with Bazel and this is more of a political/motivation problem than a technical one. Or, is that incorrect?

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Re:Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox by hannob on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:34AM (#21387586)

Sure, this is not impossible.

But there's a simple fact: The more complex your build chain is the more difficult this is. And Java adds a whole bunch of complexity.

Read into the bug report to get an idea what a nightmarish task this is: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782654

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Re:Evaluating Bazel for building Firefox by lima on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @03:27PM (#21391091)

The blob is just the JDK + Bazel + a wrapper binary. Just use their regular build artifacts instead if you want to bring your own JDK.

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