247286 - Build of released sources broken

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[stefan raspl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

With both, Thunderbird 0.7 and Firefox 0.9, I get identical build errors (using
gcc 2.95-3), using the latest released source packages from the servers
(1) mozilla/rdf/chrome/src/nsChromeRegistry.cpp, line 2692:
      NS_IMETHODIMP nsChromeRegistry::UninstallPackage(const PRUnichar*  
                                       aPackageName, PRBool aUseProfile)
    is defined with a different first argument type (const PRUnichar*) in the 
    respective header file.
    Correct would be to use const nsACString & instead:
      NS_IMETHODIMP nsChromeRegistry::UninstallPackage(const nsACString &       
                                       aPackageName, PRBool aUseProfile)
(2) After that, the compile finally stops here:
      gmake[3]: *** No rule to make target `extensions/Makefile.in', needed by 
        `extensions/Makefile'.  Stop.
      gmake[3]: Leaving directory      
        `/scratch/downloads/thunderbird/mozilla/xpfe/components'


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.download the source package for thunderbird 0.7
2.call ./configure or alternatively run gmake -f client.mk (I'm using
--disable-debug and --enable-optimize, nothing else. I noticed that the problems
do _not_ disappear when I omit these and build with defaults all the way)
3.build via 'gmake'

Actual Results:  
build stops

Expected Results:  
binaries?!?

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

thunderbird and firefox don't build mozilla\rdf chrome.

If you are buidling this directory that means your mozconfig is bogus 

Comment 2

[stefan raspl]

Negative: I'm using defaults all the way - a .mozconfig doesn't even exist!
make is version 3.79.1 - maybe one of the Makefiles is misinterpreted?!?
Renaming mozilla/rdf/chrome didn't help, and the whole message appears to be
quite bogs, since a respective extensions/Makefile _without_ a
extensions/Makefile.in simply does not exist:

/scratch/downloads/thunderbird/mozilla> find . | grep "extensions/Makefile"
./ipc/ipcd/extensions/Makefile
./ipc/ipcd/extensions/Makefile.in
./mail/app/profile/extensions/Makefile.in
./mail/extensions/Makefile.in
./mailnews/extensions/Makefile
./mailnews/extensions/Makefile.in
./toolkit/components/extensions/Makefile.in
./toolkit/mozapps/extensions/Makefile.in
./extensions/Makefile
./extensions/Makefile.in

As you can see from the above, all extensions/Makefile have a respective
extensions/Makefile. Maybe some path variable is not initialized, like
$(FOO)extensions/Makefile becomes extensions/Makefile, since $FOO is not defined?

Comment 3

[Scott MacGregor]

*sigh* your obviously going to have major build problems if you don't even have
a .mozconfig in your mozilla directory. 

Did you read the build instructions? Please do that first. Thanks.

Comment 4

[stefan raspl]

I've read probably most of the documentation online and also built previous
versions successfully. Also, I have already tried to get a .mozconfig (since the
./configure or make -f client.mk wouldn't generate one which made me suspicious)
using the Unix Build Configurator, but since it told me 'No script needed. Only
default values were selected.', I guess it must be very well possible to build
without a .mozconfig!?!
I've tried all ways to build the latest released tarballs, among others
following the instructions given at
http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix-details.html, sections 'Manually drive the
build' and 'Automated build (client.mk)'. I made sure that I meet all the
prerequisites. I applied these to 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9/
firefox-0.9-source.tar.bz2
and 
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.7/ 
thunderbird-0.7-source.tar.bz2

Now am I doing something wrong here, or is there something missing in the
instructions?

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

I have not idea what you just said. :)

The build instructions are at:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/buid.html

Comment 6

[s.despret]

> The build instructions are at:
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/buid.html

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/build.html in fact :)