232003 - ActiveState Perl does not work with GNU make 3.80 ("No rule to make target `Makefile.in'" in xpcom\MoreFiles)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect, P1)

Description

[Ali Ebrahim]

ActiveState Perl 5.8.0 does not work with Cygwin GNU make 3.80 when building
Mozilla, because there has (apparently) been a change in make 3.80 where make
handles paths more strictly than make 3.79.

When I build with the combination of ActiveState Perl 5.8.0 and Cygwin GNU make
3.80 I get the following error (it works fine with Cygwin GNU make 3.79):

/cygdrive/d/cvs-1.11.5/mozilla/build/cygwin-wrapper /cygdrive/d/perl/bin/perl /c
ygdrive/d/cvs-1.11.5/mozilla/build/autoconf/make-makefile -t /cygdrive/d/cvs-1.1
1.5/mozilla -d .. MoreFiles/Makefile
creating xpcom/MoreFiles/Makefile
make[4]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/d/cvs-1.11.5/nightly/xpcom/MoreFiles'
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `Makefile.in', needed by `Makefile'.  Stop.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

I've upgraded my ActiveState Perl install to version 5.8.2.808 but I'm still
getting the same error.

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

I should also note that the combination of Cygwin Perl 5.8.2 and Cygin GNU make
3.80 works fine.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Mine. I need to semi-unwrap calls to make-makefile for the AS perl case; I'm
trying to figure out an easy way to do that.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

updating summary, maybe the next person will have an easier time discovering the
problem :-)

Comment 5

[James Ross]

Interestingly, I'm using ActiveState Perl 5.8.3 [809] (and 5.8.0 before) and GNU
make 3.80 to build Firefox *fine*. I guess I should check what I've hacked with
the build system...

Comment 6

[Ali Ebrahim]

I still get the same error with AS Perl 5.8.3.809. Updating summary.

Comment 7

[David Gardiner]

I only see this problem when i set MOZ_OBJDIR

If i don't then I can compile ok.

-dave

Comment 8

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

I can reproduce this using ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 build 638 as well.

Comment 9

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Make printed-topsrcdir optionally different

Comment 10

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Updated with quotes in make-makefile

This is what was actually checked in, I had to add quotes around the "mkdir"
call in make-makefile so that browser/app/profile/extensions/{stupidGUID} would
build properly.

Comment 11

[David G King]

*** Bug 273366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

OK, I'm actually having problems still.  The EXE is created OK, but when I try
to run it, I get the following error:
--------------------
Error
126: Could not load C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ns_temp\xpcom.ns\bin\xpistub.dll
--------------------
Can anybody else reproduce?

Comment 13

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

OK, I'm getting the same error with Cygwin Perl, so it must be another issue
unrelated to ActivePerl. I'll search to see if the bug has been filed and file a
new one if it hasn't.