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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

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848 points thefilmore | 2 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source
1. DennisL123 ◴[13 May 25 06:48 UTC] No.43970183[source]▶
A BUILD.md could be useful.
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2. mdaniel ◴[13 May 25 15:43 UTC] No.43974191[source]▶
the readme is literally 21 lines long, and about 25% of them are blank lines, with the 2nd URL pointing to "how to contribute" and that link has a dedicated "how to build and run" https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contrib...

The bad news is that their build system is extremely hand-rolled, and so if it works for you, count yourself lucky, because when it doesn't work you're in for 4 hours of python hell