1314306 - Build fails outside clean chroot

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[flo.xfce]

Attachment: config.log

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0
Build ID: 20161021084537

Steps to reproduce:

Trying to build firefox 49.0.2 on Arch Linux, outside of a clean chroot.
uname -a "Linux hostname 4.8.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 22 18:26:57 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux"


Actual results:

The build fails: "configure: error: system NSPR does not support PR_STATIC_ASSERT or including prtypes.h does not provide it"
nspr is up-to-date (4.13.1) and the macro is defined in the respective header file. Using --without-system-nspr does not make firefox build. There are more problems, like wrong results from version checks for libjpeg and zlib.


Expected results:

It should build fine even outside of a clean chroot.
config.log attached

Comment 1

[flo.xfce]

This bug is still present in Firefox 50.0. I'd like to start investigating but I have no idea where to start.

Comment 2

[Kim Moir [:kmoir] ET]

triaging, closing, inactive development stream