306557 - Build produces file named '$(pdbfile).pdb' in objdir

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Darin Fisher]

With a CVS pull of the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH from 2005-08-30, I noticed that a file
named '$(pdbfile).pdb' is created in my objdir.  This seems like a build system
anomaly since I'd imagine that the shell variable was meant to be expanded first.

I don't know yet if this actually causes any harm.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

It seems this file is create during configure phase, just some file
created/modified dates (from depend build):
$(pdbfile).pdb created 13:21:33, last modified 12:06:59
To compare some other files from the toplevel-dir:
config.log created 13:21:16, last modified 12:06:59
config.status created 13:21:59, last modified 12:07:14
mozilla-config.h created/last modified 12:07:00

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

darin: Do you still see this bug? I no longer see this $(pdbfile).pdb here.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/configure.in#1848

Looks like it's created during the compile tests in configure, since we set CFLAGS like so.  I'm not particularly sure why we set CFLAGS that way.

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I'm guessing this is no longer an issue.