Re: firefox140 vs maintainer-files target

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 02:26:10PM +0200, Leonardo Taccari wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I'm trying to package firefox140 given that it is the latest
> Firefox ESR.
> 
> The package seems okay (it builds, install and works... I have not
> tested it for a lot of time yet though) but I think that I need to also
> regen some files via the `maintainer-files` target. However, when
> setting that via:
> 
>  $ export FIREFOX_MAINTAINER=yes
>  $ make maintainer-files FIREFOX_MAINTAINER=yes

I think you need to have the export in place before doing the build,
so I'd suggest to make cleandir and try again.

Otherwise the nodejs stuff is avoided during the build and "make
maintainer-files" can't extract it.

Martin