I noticed something whilst checking an anomaly on my custom build. I assumed that the .mozconfig at the instruction webpage ( https://developer.palemoon.org/build/linux/ ) would be official. However, it seems to differ slightly from the output of about:buildconfig from the official tarball downloaded from the palemoon.org website (33.4.0.1 64-bit GTK2)
1) The instruction webpage has "--enable-devtools". This does not show up in "about:buildconfig" output from the official tarball.
2) The instruction webpage has "--disable-debug". "about:buildconfig" from the official tarball shows "--disable-debug-symbols".
Features, or bugs, or insignificant?
.mozconfig differences; instructions versus official tarball
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.mozconfig differences; instructions versus official tarball
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Re: .mozconfig differences; instructions versus official tarball
We do occasionally change our build config for official builds that aren't necessarily reflected in the build instructions.
That said, any significant changes would show up (if we remember to update the documentation), and what you've seen is insignificant. "enable devtools" is default so the .mozconfig for it is redundant and doesn't do anything.
Same for "disable debug".
The disable-debug-symbols is only important for debugging runtime-errors/attaching a debugger. I believe this has considerable impact on resulting binary sizes on Linux, but memory is a bit hazy as to why it's included in our builds.
That said, any significant changes would show up (if we remember to update the documentation), and what you've seen is insignificant. "enable devtools" is default so the .mozconfig for it is redundant and doesn't do anything.
Same for "disable debug".
The disable-debug-symbols is only important for debugging runtime-errors/attaching a debugger. I believe this has considerable impact on resulting binary sizes on Linux, but memory is a bit hazy as to why it's included in our builds.
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Re: .mozconfig differences; instructions versus official tarball
Probably in this thread: viewtopic.php?t=28254