308783 - Building installer doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 308864

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Michael Vanier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 Debian/1.7.11-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050915 SeaMonkey/1.1a

I'm trying to build the latest CVS version of Seamonkey (suite, calendar and
xulrunner).  The compilation stage goes fine, with no errors reported.  The
browser will also run if I invoke seamonkey-bin directly.  However, building the
installer fails for what seems like a trivial reason:

% make -C ../objdir/xpinstall/package
[lots of text omitted]

cd ../../dist/seamonkey; rm -rf  core bsdecho gtscc jscpucfg nsinstall viewer
TestGtkEmbed bloaturls.txt codesighs* elf-dynstr-gc mangle* maptsv* mfc*
mkdepend* msdump* msmap* nm2tsv* nsinstall* rebasedlls* res/samples res/throbber
shlibsign* winEmbed.exe chrome/chrome.rdf chrome/app-chrome.manifest
chrome/overlayinfo components/compreg.dat components/xpti.dat 
/home/mvanier/src/core/mozilla/objdir/config/nsinstall -t  ../../dist/seamonkey
usage: /home/mvanier/src/core/mozilla/objdir/config/nsinstall [-C cwd] [-L
linkprefix] [-m mode] [-o owner] [-g group]
                                                              [-DdltR] file
[file ...] directory
make[1]: *** [seamonkey-1.1a.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

So something seems to be wrong with the way nsinstall is invoked, or else with
the command I'm giving to make the installer (which I copied off the mozilla
docs at
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_and_Install#Installing_Your_Build.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build the seamonkey suite (applications=suite,calendar,xulrunner).
2. Build the installer.

Actual Results:  
The build of the installer failed upon invoking nsinstall and printed out a
usage message as described above.

Expected Results:  
It should have built the installer.

Comment 1

[Mark Mentovai]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308864 ***

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

verified