WebRTC in Pale Moon build output

[adesh]

While compiling Pale Moon today I noticed some mentions on webrtc in the build output.
During the early phase:

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content_html.xpt
content_webrtc.xpt
content_xslt.xpt

And then later in compilation step:

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libimage.a.desc
libeditor_composer.a.desc
libdom_media_webrtc.a.desc
libdom_xslt_xslt.a.desc

Does it mean that some portion of WebRTC is built but is not functional? Or is it more than that? Is is just because "media" is intertwined with this stuff?

I was building on Mac and have --disable-webrtc (not needed probably) in the mozconfig.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

There is some dom plumbing that gets built but it does nothing except satisfy callsites but is otherwise no-op.. Check MOZ_WEBRTC in the dom directory with xref. You can see.

[Moonchild]

Even if WebRTC isn't built, some headers are still exported and processed because the rest of the platform expects some definitions to be there; the platform has the capability of building WebRTC, after all. This can't always be neatly modularised. That doesn't mean any actually functional WebRTC capability is present in the final application or that it is more than a bit of ductwork. The same goes for some other components/features.
Even in the case a module is built because it's too entwined it doesn't mean the code is also exposed.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

Maybe later we can sort it but not anytime soon and it hardly matters.

[adesh]

Thank you both for explaining.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

I recently went over that in my channel actually. Someone else asked. So it was fresh in mah mind.