338847 - xulrunner build crash due to xargs too long list of arguments.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Francois Moulin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 Xulrunner 1.8.0.1

xulrunner build crashes when I do make in [objDirectory]/extensions/java/xpcom/interfaces.
the command generating the error is the following : 

find _javagen -name "*.java" | xargs /cygdrive/c/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/javac -source 1.4 -classpath .       -d . -sourcepath _javagen

the error returned is :

xargs: /cygdrive/c/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/javac: Argument list too long

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Build Xulrunner with java/XPCom

My .mozconfig is : 

. $topsrcdir/xulrunner/config/mozconfig

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=xulrunner
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j2"

ac_add_options --enable-application=xulrunner
ac_add_options --enable-javaxpcom
ac_add_options --enable-storage 
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-branding
ac_add_options --enable-extensions=inspector,cview,venkman,webdav,xml-rpc,xforms,default
ac_add_options --with-java-include-path="/cygdrive/c/jdk1.5.0_06/include"
ac_add_options --with-java-bin-path="/cygdrive/c/jdk1.5.0_06/bin"
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
ac_add_options --disable-composer
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-crypto

I have MSVC8, cygwin, my jdk version is 1.5.0_06.



The problem is solved by adding ' -n 20 ' in the command line after xargs, like this in [objDirectory]/extensions/java/xpcom/interfaces :

find _javagen -name "*.java" | xargs -n 20 /cygdrive/c/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/javac -source 1.4 -classpath .       -d . -sourcepath _javagen
make -t

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter writes "We changed our application into a firefox extension 3 months after i reported the bug and i haven't tried to build xulrunner with java-xpcom since [so I don't know if the problem exists]

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

XULRunner has been removed from the Mozilla tree: see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/_rFMunG2Bgw for context.

I am closing all the bugs currently in the XULRunner bugzilla component, in preparation for moving this component to the graveyard. If this bug is still valid in a XULRunner-less world, it will need to be moved to a different bugzilla component to be reopened.