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| 1 ======== | |
| 2 Glossary | |
| 3 ======== | |
| 4 | |
| 5 .. glossary:: | |
| 6 :sorted: | |
| 7 | |
| 8 object directory | |
| 9 A directory holding the output of the build system. The build | |
| 10 system attempts to isolate all file modifications to this | |
| 11 directory. By convention, object directories are commonly | |
| 12 directories under the source directory prefixed with **obj-**. | |
| 13 e.g. **obj-firefox**. | |
| 14 | |
| 15 mozconfig | |
| 16 A shell script used to configure the build system. | |
| 17 | |
| 18 configure | |
| 19 A generated shell script which detects the current system | |
| 20 environment, applies a requested set of build configuration | |
| 21 options, and writes out metadata to be consumed by the build | |
| 22 system. | |
| 23 | |
| 24 config.status | |
| 25 An executable file produced by **configure** that takes the | |
| 26 generated build config and writes out files used to build the | |
| 27 tree. Traditionally, config.status writes out a bunch of | |
| 28 Makefiles. | |
| 29 | |
| 30 install manifest | |
| 31 A file containing metadata describing file installation rules. | |
| 32 A large part of the build system consists of copying files | |
| 33 around to appropriate places. We write out special files | |
| 34 describing the set of required operations so we can process the | |
| 35 actions effeciently. These files are install manifests. | |
| 36 | |
| 37 clobber build | |
| 38 A build performed with an initially empty object directory. All | |
| 39 build actions must be performed. | |
| 40 | |
| 41 incremental build | |
| 42 A build performed with the result of a previous build in an | |
| 43 object directory. The build should not have to work as hard because | |
| 44 it will be able to reuse the work from previous builds. | |
| 45 | |
| 46 mozinfo | |
| 47 An API for accessing a common and limited subset of the build and | |
| 48 run-time configuration. See :ref:`mozinfo`. |
