177113 - building Mozilla on solaris fails due during libldap50.a: ranlib: -L/tmp/x/mozilla/dist/lib: No such file or directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181382

(Directory Graveyard :: LDAP C SDK, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Pioch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020926
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2b)

PS: I've always had this failure since I started building Mozilla from
src/ distributions on Solaris 8

Basically, when you "gmake -f client.mk build"
it will fail while:

/usr/local/bin/perl5 ../../../ldap/build/genexports.pl SunOS Standard
../libldap.ex  5.0 50 > libldap.exp
======= making ./libldap50.a
rm -f libldap50.a; /usr/local/bin/ar cr libldap50.a ./abandon.o ./add.o ./bind.o
./cache.o ./charray.o ./charset.o ./compare.o ./compat.o ./control.o
./countvalues.o ./delete.o ./disptmpl.o ./dsparse.o ./error.o ./extendop.o
./free.o ./freevalues.o ./friendly.o ./getattr.o ./getdn.o ./getdxbyname.o
./getentry.o ./getfilter.o ./getoption.o ./getvalues.o ./memcache.o ./message.o
./modify.o ./open.o ./os-ip.o ./proxyauthctrl.o ./psearch.o ./referral.o
./regex.o ./rename.o ./request.o ./reslist.o ./result.o ./saslbind.o ./sbind.o
./search.o ./setoption.o ./sort.o ./sortctrl.o ./srchpref.o ./tmplout.o ./ufn.o
./unbind.o ./unescape.o ./url.o ./utf8.o ./vlistctrl.o; ranlib libldap50.a
-L/tmp/x/mozilla/dist/lib -llber50
ranlib: -L/tmp/x/mozilla/dist/lib: No such file or directory
gmake[6]: *** [libldap50.a] Error 9
gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla/directory/c-sdk/ldap/libraries/libldap'
gmake[5]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla/directory/c-sdk/ldap/libraries'
gmake[4]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla/directory/c-sdk/ldap'
gmake[3]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla/directory/c-sdk'
gmake[2]: *** [ldap] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla'
gmake[1]: *** [default] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla'
gmake: *** [build] Error 2

The workaround is to run "gmake -f client.mk build" again.
The second time it will build Mozilla correctly.

Happened all the time in the past for me, and today again when trying
to build Mozilla/1.2b from src/ distribution available on website
(NOT checked out CVS directly)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkdir /tmp/x && cd /tmp/x && gtar -zxvf ~/mozilla-source-1.2b.tar.gz
2. gmake -f client.mk build
3. watch the build go busted

Actual Results:  
ranlib: -L/tmp/x/mozilla/dist/lib: No such file or directory
gmake[6]: *** [libldap50.a] Error 9
gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla/directory/c-sdk/ldap/libraries/libldap'
gmake[5]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla/directory/c-sdk/ldap/libraries'
gmake[4]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla/directory/c-sdk/ldap'
gmake[3]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla/directory/c-sdk'
gmake[2]: *** [ldap] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla'
gmake[1]: *** [default] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/x/mozilla'
gmake: *** [build] Error 2

Expected Results:  
BUILD!


Solaris 8, with required patches, and GCC 3.2

Comment 1

[Mark Smith [:mcs]]

Dan, do you know if is this a known problem? It sounds very familiar.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Pioch]

Apparently this is due to the fact that I have GNU binutils installed in
/usr/local/bin on my solaris system, so configure selects
/usr/local/bin/ar and /usr/local/bin/ranlib

I have moved out of the way ar and ranlib, and now configure picks:
s%@HOST_RANLIB@%ranlib%g
s%@HOST_AR@%/usr/ccs/bin/ar%g

and build doesn't fail anymore.

Apparently GNU ranlib (ar -s, really) doesn't support -L/...

  ranlib libldap50.a -L/tmp/x/mozilla/dist/lib -llber50

fails with: ranlib: -L/tmp/x/mozilla/dist/lib: No such file or directory

"ran ranlib" states:

GNU Development Tools                                   ranlib(1)

NAME
     ranlib - generate index to archive.

SYNOPSIS
     ranlib [-v|-V] archive

Comment 3

[Mark Smith [:mcs]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181382 ***

Comment 4

[Frankie]

Spam for bug 129472