--with-mozilla-build required on windows ?

[Michael Stahl]

On 14/08/12 11:18, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 17:17 +0200, Matúš Kukan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since 500261a6b6e9dbeacce7f693b01a1c32a112f4fb nss seems to be needed for vcl.
>> I'd push attached patch to fix W2008R2_16-minimal_build but It would
>> fail anyway because one needs Mozilla build tools for that ?
>> So - what's wrong ?
>> Running configure on windows without --with-mozilla-build ?
>> I also may have missed something.
> 
> I think we really have to bite the bullet and just state that we *need*
> nss (and we *need* xmlsec) and if the buildbots die with "can't find
> mozilla-build tools required to build nss" then that's fine and the
> buildbot needs to install the additional dependency.

indeed, AFAIR --disable-xmlsec is not supposed to be used on desktop
platforms, it is only for those weird smartphone things; perhaps we
should add a platform check in configure...