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New publicly available CentOS ref platform!

bhearsum — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:17:43 +0000

I’m happy to announce that I’ve finally updated the publicly available version of our CentOS 5.0 build reference platform. There are many changes to it since the last released version, most notably a Scratchbox installation and Mercurial. For all the details you can have a look at the reference platform wiki page. Everything up to Version 17 is included on the released version.

You can get it here: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/VMs/

Mozilla2, Linux 64-bit, and Mobile

bhearsum — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:04:15 +0000

Over the past month there’s been some new builds set-up. We now have Mobile and Mozilla 2 tinderboxes, as well as Linux 64-bit builds.

Mobile builds are done on Linux ARM, inside of Scratchbox. For more details about the Mobile platform setup, see the ref platform doc. Builds are not yet being published, but we hope to get them going soon. Details are in bug 418852.

We have very very basic Mozilla2 infrastructure up. Linux and Windows builds are going, Mac is pending. Currently, actionmonkey and mozilla-central are built. There is no unit or perf testing as of yet. You can find these builds here and here. These builds are labeled as Firefox 4.0a1pre to avoid confusion with the current CVS trunk but that’s the _only_ reason they are named as such. We are a ways off from Firefox 4 and these builds should not be considered as previews of it. I’ve seen some blog posts about “Firefox 4 Alpha 1″ being released and I want to stress that this is NOT the case. The ‘pre’ in the version strings means ‘prerelease’ – aka. not yet released. For all of the nitty gritty details on Moz2 builds, see this tracking bug.

Last but not least, Linux 64-bit builds have been set-up. They are built on CentOS 5.0 with GCC 4.2.3 and follow the same mozconfig as 32-bit dep/nightly builds. You can see them on the MozillaExperimental tinderbox for now, but they should be pushed to the Firefox tree by the end of the week. You can find the hourly builds here and the nightly builds here (the same place as 32-bit Firefox builds). These builds are being done primarily to “catch bugs in visibility handling” and make sure we don’t break x86_64. At this time, there is no plans to do 64-bit releases.

Linux Reference Platform RC2

bhearsum — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:27:53 +0000

Thanks to those people that downloaded and RC1 of the Linux ref platform. There was one small bug found (the wrong GCC version is used), so I’ve spun an RC2. As before you can find it on ftp.mozilla.org.

In much more exciting news, Chris Tyler made available a KVM image of the ref platform. An image should be available on ftp.mozilla.org very soon, but for now here’s instructions on how to convert the VMware image to KVM format.

There was a request to host a torrent of this image in my last post. Due to the infrequency of these releases, relatively low interest, and the fact that we don’t have any existing infrastructure for hosting torrents I’ve decided against doing this.

As before, any bugs found should be reported in mozilla.org :: Build & Release.

Happy building!

Downloadable Linux Build Environment

bhearsum — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:07:25 +0000

Hot on the heels of MozillaBuild 1.2, RC1 of the Build Team’s Linux Reference Platform is available in the form of a VMware Image. It should work (read: has been tested with) VMware Workstation 6, Fusion, and Player. With this image you should be able to boot it up and download/compile Mozilla without any further configuration.

This image is what most of our Linux Trunk/1.9 Tinderboxen run on. It is essentially the “Linux CentOS 5.0″ platform + “Buildbot Linux” platform. (Those pages are messy currently, and should be cleaned up soon.) Default usernames and passwords can be found here.

You can download the image from here (warning! 1.1GB). Please file any bugs in mozilla.org :: Build & Release and cc me (:bhearsum).

Thanks to Preed for originally creating the reference platform.