如何构建特定版本的Chromium？

Question

I want to build the latest stable version of Chromium ( 62.0.3202.84 at the time of writing, see OmahaProxy ).

The build instructions work just fine for the current development version.

From this question , the Brave wiki and some other sources, the instructions to fetch and build a specific version seem to be pretty clear :

git fetch origin 62.0.3202.84
git checkout -b my_stable_branch FETCH_HEAD
# hooks and dependencies if needed, commits, compilation...

However, this does not seem to work for me. When I create a branch for FETCH_HEAD , a quick git log shows that I have the latest commits from master .

What am I misunderstanding ?

EDIT :

If I do the steps from Asesh's answer from master , it runs “successfully” but I still end up building master instead of what I want.

If I first create a branch from a specific tag (as specified in the Chromium documentation ), like 62.0.3202.84 , or even if I just check it out without branching, gclient sync --with_branch_heads fails giving me the following error :

Error: Command 'git checkout --quiet 6e4c388c0117fe408b66fbede91081fb1018c5fe' returned non-zero exit status 128 in /path/to/chromium/src/media/cdm/api
fatal: reference is not a tree: 6e4c388c0117fe408b66fbede91081fb1018c5fe

Answer 1

I successfully compiled version 3239, so I understand the problem was a bad reference in 3202's DEPS file. _{(which is quite weird...)}

Hence the following steps are actually correct:

git checkout -b your_branch xx.x.xxxx.xx
gclient sync

EDIT 2018-07-02: According to this page , starting from version 3420, it should be possible to correctly sync dependencies.