1116392 - build-docs broken on Windows

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1754299

(Firefox Build System :: Mach Core, enhancement)

Description

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Attachment: Error log

build-docs seems to be broken on Windows - it fails on two Windows machines for me, with the following error:

  TypeError: mismatched path types!


See attachment for full log.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Congratulations, you are probably the first person to attempt building the docs on Windows :)

I recommend installing Vagrant and running |vagrant up| in tools/docs to launch a Linux VM. From there, cd /gecko and try running |./mach build-docs|. Be warned that running things from Linux may overwrite some files that Windows builds need to work. You might want to use a custom mozconfig in the VM.

How important is it for this to work?

Comment 2

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Hah, yea, figures.

I ended up just running it in one of my Linux VMs (I regularly do builds/testing there anyway), so it's not vitally important to me right now. Though I certainly wouldn't want to see this as a WONTFIX :)

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This mostly works now but bug 1754299 is still breaking things.