233487 - installer scripts do not support objdir or cygwin perl

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 228776

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[cls]

According to Ben, the installer scripts were forked "when the files were
created".  According to the date on the first revision, this was well after we
added objdir/cygwin perl support to the mozilla installer scripts so I don't
understand why firebird doesn't have that support.  In any case, requiring
srcdir builds & that specific variant of perl is going to cause problems for us
in the future as we've talked about dropping both srcdir builds & AS perl.

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Is there a reason why the the perfectly clean and unspammed bugs 228773 (objdir
support) and 228776 (AS perl) were not used for this matter? Shall I dupe those
against this bug?

Comment 2

[cls]

I searched for bugs with 'cygwin perl' in the comments so I didn't see them.  It
doesn't matter to me which way the duping goes as long as the bugs get fixed. :)


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228776 ***

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified duplicate.