1314934 - Can no longer build Firefox under Windows 10

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1314894

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I can no longer build Firefox under windows 10.  Here is the log snippet of the failure.

 1:43.34 js\src>   File "c:/Users/wag/mozilla/mozilla2/build/moz.configure/old.c
onfigure", line 359, in old_configure
 1:43.34
 1:43.34 js\src>     code = compile(fh.read(), 'config.data', 'exec')
 1:43.34
 1:43.34 js\src>   File "config.data", line 277
 1:43.34
 1:43.34 js\src>     (''' top_srcdir ''', r''' c:\Users\wag\mozilla\mozilla2\js\
src/../.. '''),
 1:43.34
 1:43.34 js\src> SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'rawunicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 3-4: truncated \uXXXX
 2:13.64 DEBUG: <truncated - see config.log for full output>

 2:13.64 DEBUG: char posix_fallocate();
 2:13.64 DEBUG:
 2:13.64 DEBUG: int main() {
 2:13.64 DEBUG:
 2:13.64 DEBUG: ; return 0; }
 2:13.64 ERROR: old-configure failed
 2:13.69 *** Fix above errors and then restart with\
 2:13.69                "c:/mozilla-build/mozmake/mozmake.EXE -f client.mk build
"
 2:13.70 client.mk:375: recipe for target 'configure' failed
 2:13.70 mozmake.EXE: *** [configure] Error 1

Comment 1

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Hg Bisect identified:

$ hg bisect -g
The first bad revision is:
changeset:   320413:a801ef597f1f
user:        Mike Hommey <[e-mail]>
date:        Thu Oct 27 13:40:42 2016 +0900
summary:     Bug 1313306 - Relax the rules for --help dependencies. r=chmanchester

Comment 2

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I could try to verify via backout, but to many patches for me to waste my time doing that.  please just fix this.

Comment 3

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

Backing out a801ef597f1f didn't fix the build for me.

Comment 4

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

(In reply to Chris Pearce (:cpearce) from comment #3)
> Backing out a801ef597f1f didn't fix the build for me.

Oh but I am glad someone else is experiencing the issue.  I had thought maybe it was specific to my build configuration.

Comment 5

[Chris Pearce [:cpearce (Not reading bugmail)]]

My hg bisect says:

The first bad revision is:
changeset:   360834:0ac9e88ff47b
user:        Mike Hommey <[e-mail]>
date:        Wed Oct 26 16:42:06 2016 +0900
summary:     Bug 1313306 - Allow @depends(when=something) without additional dependencies. r=chmanchester

...but backing that out results in:

 0:00.66 c:\mozilla-build\mozmake\mozmake.EXE -f client.mk -s configure
 0:03.07 cd c:/Users/cpearce/src/mozilla/purple/obj-i686-pc-mingw32
 0:03.09 c:/Users/cpearce/src/mozilla/purple/configure
 0:03.33 Traceback (most recent call last):
 0:03.33   File "c:/Users/cpearce/src/mozilla/purple/configure.py", line 107, in <module>
 0:03.33     sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
 0:03.33   File "c:/Users/cpearce/src/mozilla/purple/configure.py", line 26, in main
 0:03.33     sandbox.run(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'moz.configure'))
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 330, in run
 0:03.33     self.include_file(path)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 321, in include_file
 0:03.33     exec_(code, self)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\util.py", line 59, in exec_
 0:03.33     exec(object, globals, locals)
 0:03.33   File "c:/Users/cpearce/src/mozilla/purple/moz.configure", line 7, in <module>
 0:03.33     include('build/moz.configure/init.configure')
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 619, in include_impl
 0:03.33     self.include_file(what)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 321, in include_file
 0:03.33     exec_(code, self)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\util.py", line 59, in exec_
 0:03.33     exec(object, globals, locals)
 0:03.33   File "c:/Users/cpearce/src/mozilla/purple/build/moz.configure/init.configure", line 7, in <module>
 0:03.33     include('util.configure')
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 619, in include_impl
 0:03.33     self.include_file(what)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 321, in include_file
 0:03.33     exec_(code, self)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\util.py", line 59, in exec_
 0:03.33     exec(object, globals, locals)
 0:03.33   File "c:/Users/cpearce/src/mozilla/purple/build/moz.configure/util.configure", line 348, in <module>
 0:03.33     always = dependable(True)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 660, in wrapper
 0:03.33     ret = template(*args, **kwargs)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 924, in wrapped
 0:03.33     return new_func(*args, **kwargs)
 0:03.33   File "c:/Users/cpearce/src/mozilla/purple/build/moz.configure/util.configure", line 345, in dependable
 0:03.33     return depends(when=True)(lambda: obj)
 0:03.33   File "c:\Users\cpearce\src\mozilla\purple\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\configure\__init__.py", line 575, in depends_impl
 0:03.33     raise ConfigureError('@depends needs at least one argument')
 0:03.33 mozbuild.configure.ConfigureError: @depends needs at least one argument
 0:03.34 *** Fix above errors and then restart with\
 0:03.34                "c:/mozilla-build/mozmake/mozmake.EXE -f client.mk build"
 0:03.35 client.mk:375: recipe for target 'configure' failed
 0:03.35 mozmake.EXE: *** [configure] Error 1

Comment 6

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I am trying a build including the patch from bug 1314894.   This looks promising.

Comment 8

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

marking fixed in 52 per bug 1314894