1598888 - strip:../../dist/firefox/libnspr4.so[.gnu.build.attributes]: corrupt GNU build attribute note: wrong note type: bad value

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[u532768]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

Steps to reproduce:

Built a local hg repository fully updated to latest nightly. When I tried to install with
mach install
I received the error.

Actual results:

0:00.58 /usr/bin/gmake -C . -j6 -s -w install
0:00.60 gmake: Entering directory '/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
0:00.61 gmake[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
0:06.06 strip:../../dist/firefox/libnspr4.so[.gnu.build.attributes]: corrupt GNU build attribute note: wrong note type: bad value
0:06.06 Traceback (most recent call last):
0:06.06 File "/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 339, in <module>
0:06.06 main()
0:06.06 File "/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.py", line 333, in main
0:06.06 copier.copy(args.destination)
0:06.06 File "/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/python/mozbuild/mozpack/copier.py", line 432, in copy
0:06.06 copy_results.append((destfile, f.copy(destfile, skip_if_older)))
0:06.06 File "/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/python/mozbuild/mozpack/files.py", line 320, in copy
0:06.06 strip(dest)
0:06.06 File "/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/python/mozbuild/mozpack/executables.py", line 101, in strip
0:06.06 errors.fatal('Error executing ' + ' '.join(cmd))
0:06.06 File "/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py", line 103, in fatal
0:06.06 self._handle(self.FATAL, msg)
0:06.06 File "/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/python/mozbuild/mozpack/errors.py", line 98, in _handle
0:06.06 raise ErrorMessage(msg)
0:06.06 mozpack.errors.ErrorMessage: Error: Error executing strip --strip-debug ../../dist/firefox/libnspr4.so
0:06.10 gmake[1]: *** [/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.mk:25: stage-package] Error 1
0:06.10 gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
0:06.10 gmake: *** [/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/browser/build.mk:15: install] Error 2
0:06.10 gmake: Leaving directory '/mnt/to_archive/accum/src/firefox-source/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'

Expected results:

A successful install to /usr/local

Comment 1

[u532768]

This first happened yesterday, 20191122. It is still there today, 20191123. The build on 20191121 installed successfully.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 3

[u532768]

This might not be a problem with firefox at all. There is a bug opened in Fedora against the strip command for causing exactly this problem.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1775885

If you agree, you can close this as notabug.