276825 - change to cygwin coreutils packaging block building

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[david avery]

from thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00762.html

cygwin.com released  new packaging of "coreutils" (which contains the GNU
fileutils, sh-utils and textutils) included is a /usr/bin/link.exe that is
likely to show up in  your path before the MS linker (link.exe) and make build
impossable

solution - remove or rename /usr/bin/link.exe

Comment 1

[cls]

There's nothing we can do about this in the build system (short of taking
ownership of the cygwin coreutils package) but it should be documented.

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Anyone on the hook to update the build page?

Comment 3

[timeless]

instructions should say to stick cygwin *after* your compiler (and everything
else, possibly save windows system paths if you have some need for cygwin find)

Comment 4

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

That's fine, but the instructions call out common errors and why they happen -
we should put this one on.

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Here's the exact error to update the page with:

configure: error: The linker major version, ,  does not match the compiler suite
 version, 7.
*** Fix above errors and then restart with "make -f client.mk build"

Comment 6

[Chase Phillips]

I've been using the following as a workaround.  Comments welcome.

  1. Under "Configure the Environment", add a new user variable MOZ_BUILD_PATH
     and set it to include %MOZ_TOOLS%\bin and the system's VC bin paths.

  2. Open a Cygwin window and edit ~/.bash_profile so that the following lines
     are appended:

       MBP_CYGPATH_MOD=`cygpath -u -p "$MOZ_BUILD_PATH"`
       PATH="$MBP_CYGPATH_MOD:$PATH"
       export PATH

Can we clean up that we recommend changing the PATH variable at the OS level?

  * Adding "c:\cygwin\bin" is only useful to have access to Cygwin utils from a
    command prompt or from Start->Run.  Though I only use Cygwin apps through a
    Cygwin shell, maybe others commonly use them outside of that environment.  
    Anyone?

  * According to the above, %MOZ_TOOLS%\bin would be a part of %MOZ_BUILD_PATH%
    and would find their way into $PATH inside a Cygwin shell.

  * "c:\mingw\bin" is only needed in MinGW environments.

Comment 7

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Build_FAQ