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   Martijn Braam (martijnbraam@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 10:15:19 JST Martijn Braam

   Firefox has a terrifying build system and completely ungoogle-able error messages :(

   good luck finding help for the "style" module in firefox that's not random CSS help stackoverflow posts...

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     Dan Hugo (danhugo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 10:50:16 JST Dan Hugo

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     @martijnbraam

     And everything was in cvs without pserve, auto mounted on /m/src.

     First day:
     1. Do not cd /m/src
     2. DO NOT cd /m/src

     Someone did checkout into /m/src about once/week.

     Such interesting times.

     (root on all unix-like machines was pil/QED fwiw…)

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     Dan Hugo (danhugo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 10:50:17 JST Dan Hugo

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     @martijnbraam

     I worked at NSCP back (way back) in the day, we could clean build on a desktop PPro in about 90 minutes, and it was not too difficult figure out what was going on where (even after the Xfe re-wrote everything in C++ without telling anyone).

     It was still crazy, but it sounds like it still is and more. Yipes!

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     Martijn Braam (martijnbraam@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 10:50:17 JST Martijn Braam

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     • Dan Hugo

     @danhugo somehow the codebase has both python2 and rust in it, I would call it crazy yes

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     Martijn Braam (martijnbraam@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 21:49:17 JST Martijn Braam

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     • chfkch :nixos: :rust:

     @chfkch but this can't be a code issue, this is a tagged release of Firefox and it compiles fine in other distributions...

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     Martijn Braam (martijnbraam@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 21:49:17 JST Martijn Braam

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     • chfkch :nixos: :rust:

     @chfkch like.... how even

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     Martijn Braam (martijnbraam@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 21:49:18 JST Martijn Braam

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     Also like... this should just not happen right? This is somehow not finding a function defined in the same file.

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     chfkch :nixos: :rust: (chfkch@ruhr.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 21:49:18 JST chfkch :nixos: :rust:

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     @martijnbraam
     Tagging #RustLang crowd, since i do not have time to look into this.

     I suspect the type of StyleBuilder (inside the <>) is wrong. Just a shot in the dark.