273366 - Compile fails with ActivePerl installed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 232003

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041130 Firefox/1.0 (Community Edition FireFox P3W)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041130 Firefox/1.0 (Community Edition FireFox P3W)

When I try to make an installer build, the "make installer" command fails with
the following error:
--------------------------------------------
could not open
/cygdrive/c/mozilla/mozilla/browser/installer/windows/instgen/installer.cfg: No
such file or directory
make[1]: *** [installer] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/mozilla/mozilla/browser/installer/windows'
make: *** [installer] Error 2
--------------------------------------------
It turns out that the cause for this is ActivePerl 5.8.4 being installed. If I
remove C:\Perl\bin (ActivePerl's install directory) from PATH and use cygwin's
Perl instead, the installer builds fine.

This thread in Mozillazine also discusses the issue.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=177779

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install ActivePerl 5.8.4
2. Attempt to make installer
Actual Results:  
Make fails

Expected Results:  
Make succeeds

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Confirming. This is a smoketest blocker, since we aren't even able to build the
installer here.

Comment 2

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

I updated the ActivePerl build to 5.6.811 and still the same problem.

timeless pointed me to using make 3.79 to get around the error I gave above,
however, I'm still getting other problems.  The only way to do a successful
build is with no form of ActivePerl installed.

Comment 3

[David G King]

With bug #232003 fixed, does that fix this bug as well?

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> With bug #232003 fixed, does that fix this bug as well?

Indeed it does :). I just made an installer using ActivePerl!

Comment 5

[David G King]

As per info in Comment #4, am dupping to Bug #232003

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232003 ***