335009 - creation of libxulapp_s.a fails with missing object file

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[R Fleck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; IRIX64 IP35; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050212
Build Identifier: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5/source

rm -f libxulapp_s.a
CC -ar -o libxulapp_s.a showOSAlert.o nsSigHandlers.o nsAppRunner.o nsConsoleWriter.o nsXREDirProvider.o nsNativeAppSupportBase.o nsUpdateDriver.o nsNativeAppSupportDefault.o nsStackFrameUnix.o  nsProfileLock. nsToolkitProfileService.o XRemoteClient.
CC ERROR:  no source or object file given
gmake[3]: *** [libxulapp_s.a] Error 2


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.../configure --disable-optimize --enable-debug -enable-application=mail --without-pthreads
2.gmake
3.gmake




can get around by 
cp XRemoteClient. XRemoteClient.o
cp nsProfileLock. nsProfileLock.o

CC -ar -o libxulapp_s.a showOSAlert.o nsSigHandlers.o nsAppRunner.o nsConsoleWriter.o nsXREDirProvider.o nsNativeAppSupportBase.o nsUpdateDriver.o nsNativeAppSupportDefault.o nsStackFrameUnix.o  nsProfileLock.o nsToolkitProfileService.o XRemoteClient.o

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Try downloading the source again (bug 334985).

Comment 2

[R Fleck]

Down loaded latest firefox source 

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.3/source/

and ran into the same problem again

also ran into the same problems for many more libs

for some reason the .o is missing. Everything looks ok
in the makefile to the untrained eye.

here are more of the same
 Watt:~ [2] cd /usr/people/rich/junk/mozilla/obj-sgi/intl/build
 Watt Watt:build [3] ls
Makefile                      nsLanguageAtomService.o
ii_files                      nsLocale.o
nsCaseConversionImp2.o        nsLocaleService.o
nsCollation.o                 nsMetaCharsetObserver.o
nsCollationUnix.o             nsObserverBase.o
nsCyrillicDetector.o          nsPSMDetectors.o
nsDateTimeFormatUnix.o        nsPosixLocale.
nsDebugDetector.o             nsSampleWordBreaker.o
nsDetectionAdaptor.o          nsSaveAsCharset.o
nsDocumentCharsetInfo.o       nsScriptableDateFormat.o
nsEntityConverter.o           nsSemanticUnitScanner.o
nsFontPackageService.o        nsStringBundle.o
nsHankakuToZenkaku.o          nsStringBundleTextOverride.o
nsI18nModule.o                nsUnicodeNormalizer.o
nsJISx4501LineBreaker.o       nsXMLEncodingObserver.o
nsLWBreakerFImp.o             rulebrk.o
 Watt:build [4] cp nsPosixLocale. nsPosixLocale.o
 Watt:build [5] rm nsPosixLocale.
 Watt:build [6] CC -ar -o libi18n.a nsI18nModule.o  nsObserverBase.o nsXMLEncodingObserver.o nsMetaCharsetObserver.o nsDetectionAdaptor.o nsDebugDetector.o nsPSMDetectors.o nsCyrillicDetector.o nsDocumentCharsetInfo.o rulebrk.o nsJISx4501LineBreaker.o nsLWBreakerFImp.o nsSampleWordBreaker.o nsSemanticUnitScanner.o nsCaseConversionImp2.o nsHankakuToZenkaku.o nsEntityConverter.o nsSaveAsCharset.o nsUnicodeNormalizer.o nsStringBundle.o nsStringBundleTextOverride.o nsCollation.o nsScriptableDateFormat.o nsLanguageAtomService.o nsLocale.o nsLocaleService.o nsFontPackageService.o nsCollationUnix.o nsDateTimeFormatUnix.o nsPosixLocale.o
 Watt:build [7] cd /usr/people/rich/junk/mozilla/obj-sgi/rdf/build
 Watt Watt:build [8] ls
Makefile                    nsRDFContentSink.o
ii_files                    nsRDFModule.o
nsCompositeDataSource.o     nsRDFParserUtils.o
nsContainerEnumerator.o     nsRDFResource.
nsDefaultResourceFactory.o  nsRDFService.o
nsFileSystemDataSource.o    nsRDFXMLDataSource.o
nsInMemoryDataSource.o      nsRDFXMLParser.o
nsLocalStore.o              nsRDFXMLSerializer.o
nsNameSpaceMap.o            rdfTriplesSerializer.o
nsRDFContainer.o            rdfutil.o
nsRDFContainerUtils.o
 Watt:build [9] cp nsRDFResource. nsRDFResource.o
 Watt:build [10] rm nsRDFResource.
 Watt:build [11] CC -ar -o librdf.a nsRDFModule.o  rdfTriplesSerializer.o nsCompositeDataSource.o nsContainerEnumerator.o nsDefaultResourceFactory.o nsInMemoryDataSource.o nsNameSpaceMap.o nsRDFContentSink.o nsRDFContainer.o nsRDFContainerUtils.o nsRDFParserUtils.o nsRDFService.o nsRDFXMLDataSource.o nsRDFXMLParser.o nsRDFXMLSerializer.o rdfutil.o nsLocalStore.o nsFileSystemDataSource.o nsRDFResource.o
 Watt:build [12]        cd /usr/people/rich/junk/mozilla/obj-sgi/embedding/browser/build
 Watt Watt:build [13] ls
Makefile                     nsEmbedStream.
ii_files                     nsWebBrowser.o
nsCommandHandler.o           nsWebBrowserContentPolicy.o
nsContextMenuInfo.o          nsWebBrowserModule.o
nsDocShellTreeOwner.o
 Watt:build [14] cp nsEmbedStream. nsEmbedStream.o
 Watt:build [15] rm nsEmbedStream.
 Watt:build [16] CC -ar -o libwebbrwsr.a nsWebBrowserModule.o  nsDocShellTreeOwner.o nsWebBrowser.o nsCommandHandler.o nsWebBrowserContentPolicy.o nsContextMenuInfo.o nsEmbedStream.o
 Watt:build [17] cd /usr/people/rich/junk/mozilla/obj-sgi/intl/build
 Watt Watt:build [18] ls
Makefile                      nsLocale.o
ii_files                      nsLocaleService.o
nsCaseConversionImp2.o        nsMetaCharsetObserver.o
nsCollation.o                 nsObserverBase.o
nsCollationUnix.o             nsPSMDetectors.o
nsCyrillicDetector.o          nsPosixLocale.
nsDateTimeFormatUnix.o        nsPosixLocale.o
nsDebugDetector.o             nsSampleWordBreaker.o
nsDetectionAdaptor.o          nsSaveAsCharset.o
nsDocumentCharsetInfo.o       nsScriptableDateFormat.o
nsEntityConverter.o           nsSemanticUnitScanner.o
nsFontPackageService.o        nsStringBundle.o
nsHankakuToZenkaku.o          nsStringBundleTextOverride.o
nsI18nModule.o                nsUnicodeNormalizer.o
nsJISx4501LineBreaker.o       nsXMLEncodingObserver.o
nsLWBreakerFImp.o             rulebrk.o
nsLanguageAtomService.o
 Watt:build [19] rm nsPosixLocale.
 Watt:build [20] CC -ar -o libi18n.a nsI18nModule.o  nsObserverBase.o nsXMLEncodingObserver.o nsMetaCharsetObserver.o nsDetectionAdaptor.o nsDebugDetector.o nsPSMDetectors.o nsCyrillicDetector.o nsDocumentCharsetInfo.o rulebrk.o nsJISx4501LineBreaker.o nsLWBreakerFImp.o nsSampleWordBreaker.o nsSemanticUnitScanner.o nsCaseConversionImp2.o nsHankakuToZenkaku.o nsEntityConverter.o nsSaveAsCharset.o nsUnicodeNormalizer.o nsStringBundle.o nsStringBundleTextOverride.o nsCollation.o nsScriptableDateFormat.o nsLanguageAtomService.o nsLocale.o nsLocaleService.o nsFontPackageService.o nsCollationUnix.o nsDateTimeFormatUnix.o nsPosixLocale.o
 Watt:build [21] cd /usr/people/rich/junk/mozilla/obj-sgi/rdf/build
 Watt Watt:build [22] ls
Makefile                    nsRDFContentSink.o
ii_files                    nsRDFModule.o
nsCompositeDataSource.o     nsRDFParserUtils.o
nsContainerEnumerator.o     nsRDFResource.
nsDefaultResourceFactory.o  nsRDFResource.o
nsFileSystemDataSource.o    nsRDFService.o
nsInMemoryDataSource.o      nsRDFXMLDataSource.o
nsLocalStore.o              nsRDFXMLParser.o
nsNameSpaceMap.o            nsRDFXMLSerializer.o
nsRDFContainer.o            rdfTriplesSerializer.o
nsRDFContainerUtils.o       rdfutil.o
 Watt:build [23] CC -ar -o librdf.a nsRDFModule.o  rdfTriplesSerializer.o nsCompositeDataSource.o nsContainerEnumerator.o nsDefaultResourceFactory.o nsInMemoryDataSource.o nsNameSpaceMap.o nsRDFContentSink.o nsRDFContainer.o nsRDFContainerUtils.o nsRDFParserUtils.o nsRDFService.o nsRDFXMLDataSource.o nsRDFXMLParser.o nsRDFXMLSerializer.o rdfutil.o nsLocalStore.o nsFileSystemDataSource.o nsRDFResource.o
 Watt:build [24] cd /usr/people/rich/junk/mozilla/obj-sgi/embedding/browser/build
 Watt Watt:build [25] ls
Makefile                     nsEmbedStream.
ii_files                     nsEmbedStream.o
nsCommandHandler.o           nsWebBrowser.o
nsContextMenuInfo.o          nsWebBrowserContentPolicy.o
nsDocShellTreeOwner.o        nsWebBrowserModule.o
 Watt:build [26] ls -al
total 1040
drwxrwxr-x    4 rich     aero        4096 May  3 11:59 .
drwxrwxr-x   10 rich     aero         121 May  2 16:56 ..
drwxrwxr-x    2 rich     aero          84 May  3 11:59 .deps
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero        2830 May  2 16:56 Makefile
drwxrwxr-x    2 rich     aero          34 May  3 11:59 ii_files
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero       20964 May  3 11:59 nsCommandHandler.o
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero       56004 May  3 11:59 nsContextMenuInfo.o
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero      163892 May  3 11:59 nsDocShellTreeOwner.o
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero       33236 May  3 11:59 nsEmbedStream.
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero       33236 May  3 09:54 nsEmbedStream.o
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero      147572 May  3 11:59 nsWebBrowser.o
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero       27284 May  3 11:59 nsWebBrowserContentPolicy.o
-rw-rw-r--    1 rich     aero       17064 May  3 11:59 nsWebBrowserModule.o
 Watt:build [27] CC -ar -o libwebbrwsr.a nsWebBrowserModule.o  nsDocShellTreeOwner.o nsWebBrowser.o nsCommandHandler.o nsWebBrowserContentPolicy.o nsContextMenuInfo.o nsEmbedStream.o
 Watt:build [28] cd /usr/people/rich/junk/mozilla/obj-sgi/profile/build
 Watt Watt:build [29] ls
Makefile                       nsProfileDirServiceProvider.o
ii_files                       nsProfileFactory.o
nsProfile.o                    nsProfileLock.
nsProfileAccess.o
 Watt:build [30] cp nsProfileLock. nsProfileLock.o
 Watt:build [31] rm nsProfileLock.
 Watt:build [32] CC -ar -o libprofile.a nsProfileFactory.o  nsProfile.o nsProfileAccess.o nsProfileDirServiceProvider.o nsProfileLock.o

Comment 3

[cls]

It sounds like a SGI specific bug wrt extracting objects from the static libraries.  In a number of places, we create libraries (shared or static) that contain the entire contents of another static library.  We get the contents of the 2nd library by running the AR_EXTRACT command to pull out all of its object files and then we use those object files instead of the 2nd static library when linking the 1st static library.  It looks like the last object in each pulled in static library is losing its extension.

Per bug 319416, try changing AR_EXTRACT to use "ar x" instead of "$(CXX) -ar x" and see if that fixes the problem.

Comment 4

[R Fleck]

Attachment: Makefile

Comment 5

[R Fleck]

Found the problem
Bad version of ranlib

version 2.12 
trimmed off .o of last file in lib list

removed ranlib 
did a distclean
ran configure 

compile sailed through to another bug

Thank You for scratching your heads over this one.