1340632 - Add a CI job that builds Firefox with a Japanese MSVC install

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

We occasionally get broken by MSVC's output including localized messages. This is very notable in the -showIncludes output, which we parse to generate dependency files. With the Japanese MSVC locale (among others), the output of -showIncludes is not ASCII, and that has caused issues.

I'm moving the code that does this detection from old-configure.in to toolchain.configure in bug 1318370, and we had some extra configury that attempted to ensure that the build system wouldn't barf on non-ASCII, but it won't port cleanly to moz.configure.

We should just setup a periodic CI build that tries to build with a Japanese MSVC install to ensure that it continues to work.

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Note that other locales have other kinds of issues. German has bug 1291843, where the code page detected by python doesn't match the one used by msvc.