305946 - lib/browserconfig.properties is installed as a symlink to version in build dir, not as an actual file

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Using a MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH firefox CVS tree pulled today, the file
mozilla/browser/base/content/browserconfig.properties is installed as a symlink
that points to the file in the build dir.  This does NOT happen in 1.0.6 under
identical build conditions.  A 1.0.6 install includes the actual file.

The exact install command from the build log for the 1.8 branch build is
**
/sw/src/fink.build/firefox-trunk-1.1-11/mozilla/config/nsinstall -L
/sw/src/fink.build/firefox-trunk-1.1-11/mozilla/browser/base
./content/browserconfig.properties ../../dist/bin
**

This install command is not seen in the 1.0.6 build log.

The relevant file seems to be mozilla/browser/base/Makefile.in, which was
changed from using a perl preprocessor to config/nsinstall around the time this
started (see bug 282057).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

Attachment: makes browserconfig.properties be a file and not a symlink

changes the dangling symlink to be an actual file

Comment 2

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

Should point out that this is in both trunk and in MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH builds.

Comment 3

[Hanspeter Niederstrasser]

Fixed on a fresh branch CVS pull.