Scripts that relied on start-shell.bat blocking are broken with move to MinTTY
Categories
(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, defect, P5)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: cmartin, Unassigned)
References
(Regression)
Details
(Keywords: regression)
I have a script on my machine that does some post-processing of a Firefox build after it finishes. I kick off the build using the following command line:
cmd /c start-shell.bat -where "<dir>\mozilla-unified" -c "./mach build"
Starting with the latest MozillaBuild update, a new MinTTY window is launched and control returns immediately from the invocation. Unfortunately, that means my post-processing script now races with the build.
Maybe there is some other way I should be doing this instead?
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Comment 1•2 months ago
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:ahochheiden, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1869958, could you take a look? Also, could you set the severity field?
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Comment 2•2 months ago
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You can set the environment variable USE_MINTTY=0 and it will go back to the old behavior, which should solve your issue.
I'm not sure if there's a way to do exactly what you're doing with MinTTY since it's opening a new terminal and abandoning the old one. Is there a reason the post-processing specifically needs to happen outside of the MozillaBuild shell? It might be easier to have a script that calls ./mach build then your post-processing steps all within the MinTTY shell (but I'm not sure what exactly you're doing, so it may not be feasible).
Either way, I don't think there's much to do here. I'll leave this open to await your reply, but I will probably close this as WONTFIX.
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Updated•2 months ago
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Comment 3•2 months ago
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Alrighty -- I have set USE_MINTTY=0 and that did fix the issue. I will have to look into the idea of having my script call ./mach build, but I think I remember there being issues with that because of the way MinTTY handles paths. Thanks anyway -- Good to know that I'm not missing something here.
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