1278495 - Artifact build fails on Windows 10 with "Can't find config.status"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1277841

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

I updated to the latest version of fx-team this morning and got the following error after doing a |mach build|:

Exception: Can't find config.status

  File "c:\Users\Patrick\dev\fx-team\python/mozbuild/mozbuild/mach_commands.py", line 1551, in artifact_install
    artifacts = self._make_artifacts(tree=tree, job=job, skip_cache=skip_cache)
  File "c:\Users\Patrick\dev\fx-team\python/mozbuild/mozbuild/mach_commands.py", line 1535, in _make_artifacts
    from mozbuild.artifacts import Artifacts
  File "c:\Users\Patrick\dev\fx-team\build/mach_bootstrap.py", line 442, in __call__
    module = self._original_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
  File "c:\Users\Patrick\dev\fx-team\python/mozbuild\mozbuild\artifacts.py", line 66, in <module>
    import buildconfig
  File "c:\Users\Patrick\dev\fx-team\build/mach_bootstrap.py", line 442, in __call__
    module = self._original_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
  File "c:\Users\Patrick\dev\fx-team\build\buildconfig.py", line 15, in <module>
    raise Exception("Can't find config.status")
Error running mach:

Adding some logs to \build\buildconfig.py I saw that it was looking for config.status in these places:

c:\mozilla-build\python\config.status
c:\mozilla-build\config.status
c:\config.status

If I just add this hack in buildconfig.py, then it works fine:

path = "c:\\Users\\Patrick\dev\\fx-team\\objdir-frontend"