68565 - configure error with R/O source directory

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect, P3)

Description

[Marcus Fellinger]

I tried to do a seperate objdir build from a read-only source directory.
configure runs fine mostly, but at the end I get the following two errors:

cp: cannot create regular file
`/net/athlete/mozilla/mozilla/nsprpub/config/my_config.mk': Permission denied
cp: cannot create regular file
`/net/athlete/mozilla/mozilla/nsprpub/config/my_overrides.mk': Permission denied

Shouldn't mozilla build from a R/O source (a CD, for example) without error?

TIA,
Marcus

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

This is a known problem.  Building from a readonly
NSPR source tree was never a goal of NSPR's classic
build system.  However, NSPR also has an autoconf
build system.  You can use it by passing the
--enable-nspr-autoconf option to Mozilla's configure
script.

Comment 2

[Marcus Fellinger]

Thanks. Using --enable-nspr-autoconf, everything works fine. I'm closing this
bug as invalid