298647 - xcode might put build products in silly places

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Mentovai]

Upon starting Xcode for the first time, the user is offered a choice of putting
build products adjacent to the project in the "build" directory, or sticking
them in some other far-off folder of the user's choosing.  We expect build
products to be in the former location, but at least one user reported build
trouble which was traced to build products being stored in the outer Hebrides.

If possible, we should handle this situation gracefully.

Comment 1

[Mark Mentovai]

Attachment: SYMROOT=build

Needs SYMROOT=build in PBBUILD_SETTINGS.  That takes care of that.

Building in the Xcode UI will still result in products being placed in whatever
nonstandard location the user asked for.  That really only matters for Camino,
but apparently, it didn't affect any Camino builders because they would have
already complained that their Mozilla build was broken.  It would be too much
for the build system to try checking for the SYMROOT setting in the xcode
plist.

Comment 2

[Mark Mentovai]

Checking in config/config.mk;
/cvsroot/mozilla/config/config.mk,v  <--  config.mk
new revision: 3.328; previous revision: 3.327
done

Comment 3

[Mark Mentovai]

*** Bug 285308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***