294522 - Build documentation doesn't explicitly warn about creating mozconfig files before checking out

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-1)

When I try to build Sunbird (following the instructions on the mozilla.org web
pages), the Mozilla browser is built and installed instead. Here's my mozconfig
file (.mozconfig-sunbird):

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-sunbird
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=calendar
ac_add_options --enable-application=calendar
ac_add_options --enable-plaintext-editor-only
ac_add_options --enable-necko-protocols=about,http,ftp,file,jar,res
ac_add_options --enable-storage
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-jsd
ac_add_options --disable-mathml
ac_add_options --disable-necko-disk-cache
ac_add_options --disable-oji
ac_add_options --disable-view-source
ac_add_options --disable-logging
ac_add_options --disable-plugins
ac_add_options --disable-cookies
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-reorder
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --disable-freetype2
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-xterm-updates
ac_add_options --disable-pedantic
ac_add_options --prefix=$HOME/sunbird

and the different steps for the build:

cvs -d ":pserver:[e-mail]:/cvsroot" \
  co -r SUNBIRD_0_2_BRANCH mozilla/client.mk
cd mozilla
export MOZCONFIG=$HOME/.mozconfig-sunbird
make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=calendar
make -f client.mk build
(cd obj-sunbird/xpfe/communicator && make)
(cd obj-sunbird && make install)

Note: I posted this to [e-mail] 12 days ago, but I didn't get
any answer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

works for me.
You mozconfig is for trunk, while your check out the 0.2 branch. Choose either
one, and follow the instructions for that.

Comment 2

[Vincent Lefevre]

I didn't know that there was a difference. I'm going to try again, but if I include

. $topsrcdir/calendar/sunbird/config/mozconfig

as said on http://www.mozilla.org/build/configure-build.html, then the CVS
checkout fails because this file doesn't exist yet. So, there's still a bug (I'm
reopening it). As a workaround, I need to set MOZCONFIG=/dev/null for the
checkout, but will this work?

Comment 3

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

cvs co mozilla/calendar/config
Sunbird isn't broken, the website is.

Comment 4

[Vincent Lefevre]

Then I'm moving it to a documentation bug.

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Changing summary to what I think is now the point of this bug.

bsmedberg, do you think this is something that could be fixed at the build system level?

Comment 6

[Vincent Lefevre]

The status could be changed to NEW...

Comment 7

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Well, I think the docs are OK, you just have to read them in order. Feel free to make tweaks to the docs on MDC (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Configuring_Build_Options).

Comment 8

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I've added a sentence or two to the article reminding people not to skip steps in the instructions.  Since nothing else has been done in a year, I'm closing this.