1737112 - Instruction for adding git-cinnabar to PATH uses "c:/" style but it should use "/c/" style

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Bootstrap Configuration, defect, P3)

Description

[Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]]

Similar to bug 1737042, but more critical.

On windows, running bootstrap with git repository shows the following at the end.
there it uses "c:/" style path, but ":" is delimiter between paths in PATH env, and you cannot use it there.

To add git-cinnabar to the PATH, edit your shell initialization script, which
may be called ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile, and add the following
lines:
​
    export PATH="c:/Users/USER/.mozbuild\git-cinnabar:$PATH"
​
Then restart your shell.

it should say

    export PATH="/c/Users/USER/.mozbuild\git-cinnabar:$PATH"

Comment 1

[Alex Hochheiden [:ahochheiden] [he/him]]

Attachment: Bug 1737112 - Update instructions for adding git-cinnabar to PATH on Windows r=mhentges g=firefox-build-system-reviewers

Updated the path value in the instructions from "<drive>:/" to "/drive/" for
Windows so that it works as intended when added to the MSYS profile. Also
added a copyable link to the expected msys/etc dir based on the MOZILLABUILD
environment variable to direct the user to where to apply the change.

(If the MOZILLABUILD variable isn't defined, supply the expected default instead)

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/362251834a83
Update instructions for adding git-cinnabar to PATH on Windows r=mhentges,firefox-build-system-reviewers,glandium g=firefox-build-system-reviewers

Comment 3

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/362251834a83