210821 - compile bombs with "empty variable name. Stop."

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Dale]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030413 Galeon/1.3.5
Build Identifier: MozillaFirebird-0.6-source.tar.bz2

About an hour into the build process the compile stops.

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dale/mozilla-firebird/src/mozilla'
make: *** empty variable name.  Stop.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run configure than make

configure options follow:

./configure --prefix=/opt/mozilla-firebird \
        --with-x \
        --with-system-jpeg \
        --with-system-zlib \
        --with-system-png \
        --with-system-mng \
        --enable-xft \
        --with-pthreads \
        --enable-crypto \
        --disable-tests \
        --disable-accessibility \
        --disable-jsd \
 --disable-svg \
        --disable-calendar \
        --without-system-nspr \
        --disable-debug \
        --disable-mailnews \
        --disable-composer \
        --disable-ldap \
        --disable-mailnews \
        --disable-ipv6 \
        --disable-toolkit-gtk \
        --disable-toolkit-qt \
        --disable-toolkit-xlib \
        --enable-toolkit-gtk2 \
        --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 \
        --enable-old-abi-compat-wrappers


Actual Results:  
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dale/mozilla-firebird/src/mozilla'
make: *** empty variable name.  Stop.

Expected Results:  
compiled sucessfully.

gcc (GCC) 3.3
GNU Make 3.80
glibc 2.3.2

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Reporter, the code in that tarball is over five weeks old.  Please try compiling
from a current CVS snapshot and update this bug.  Build problems, like other
bugs, should be reported on builds no more than three weeks old, and preferably
on up to date versions.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

practically speaking, lots of people of compiled Firebird 0.6 without problems.
 To diagnose this you need to figure out what make was doing before it bailed,
so the lines that came before the actual error would be rather helpful.

Comment 3

[Dale]

Guys, you may close this bug.  It was a bug in the build environment, not in
Firebird.  Thanks.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

ok.  marking INVALID -- this is not a Mozilla bug

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.