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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...

@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!

Martijn Braam

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

@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…)