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Re: [tor-dev] tor-browser-build : any way to get it to use system packages for building?

So the purpose of tor-browser-build is to two-fold:
1. Providing a system which can reproducibly build tor-browser for all of our platforms, this necessitates ensuring every builder is building using the same toolchain, libs, dependencies, etc (which does necessitate downloading and validating lot of git repos/source archives/etc). 2. easy cross-platform builds (otherwise devs would need to figure out how to get together all of the relevant per-platform toolchains). 

You *can* do local Linux dev builds, see this guide:

- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/wikis/Hacking
That said, tor-browser-build can definitely be more performant (in terms of both space and time) and patches are definitely welcome. For a space and time win see this recent issue: 

- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40186

A good intro document for working on tor-browser-build can be found here:
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/team/-/wikis/Development-Information/Tor-Browser/Building 

We're also happy to help out on IRC, come find us in #tor-browser-dev on OFTC.

best,
-Richard

On 6/14/22 00:47, Jason Vas Dias wrote:

Good day -

   I recently attempted to check-out and build tor-browser-build -
   MUST it download ALL the gits, if system packages
   are found to satisfy version dependencies ?

   I just don't have enough storage / network bandwidth .
   Why am I downloading the llvm source when I already
   have llvm and clang 13 (-devel packages also) on my
   Fedora 36 system ?

   Is there any interest in producing a version of tor-browser-build
   to use installed system packages if they meet version requirements
   instead of checking out GITs & building for ALL dependencies ?
   It could be enabled with a USE_SYSTEM_PKGS=1 make
   option or something.

   I'm going to have to develop this if I want to work on tor-browser,
   which I do want to do.

Best Regards,
Jason
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