1520700 - ERROR: old-configure failed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1520730

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Joe Searle]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.17763

Steps to reproduce:

Updated to changeset: 454332:347b8151960c, merged, committed changes, and the ran ./mach build

Actual results:

3:13.42 c:/mozilla-source/mozilla-central/old-configure: line 634: c:mozilla-sourcemozilla-centralobj-x86_64-pc-mingw32config.log: Permission denied
3:13.44 ERROR: old-configure failed
3:13.54 *** Fix above errors and then restart with
3:13.54 "./mach build"
3:13.56 mozmake.EXE: *** [client.mk:115: configure] Error 1

Expected results:

Build should succeed.
Although line 634 is:
exec 5>>c:\mozilla-source\mozilla-central\obj-x86_64-pc-mingw32\config.log
The line echoed to the terminal contains no reverse slashes.
On a lark I've modified them to forward slashes and it is getting further into the build.

Comment 1

[Mark Goodwin [:mgoodwin]]

This also happens with the old-configure in js/src - again, manually editing this file allows a work around.