341503 - Can't make DMG package with "--enable-shared build"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Hiro]

The DMG package cannot be made from "--enable-shared" by the check-in of bug340167. 

Reproducible: Always

Error message:

$make -C browser/installer
Makefile:70: *** you need a "--enable-static --disable-shared" build to create an installer.  Stop.

Comment 1

[Hiro]

Attachment: Proposal patch

I do not understand whether there is a problem when the package of "--enable-shared" is made in other 
platforms.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is by design. We don't want to release non-static builds, they are for development only.

Comment 3

[Mark Mentovai]

I don't really agree with it either, because I occasionally need to distribute unofficial builds for various purposes.  Sometimes, they happen to be nonstatic, but this is usually only when I don't care about doing the Right Thing and just want an easy way to pass an existing build to someone else for testing.  It does make the MOZ_PKG_MANIFEST stuff (currently unused on the Mac) easier, though, and the error is bypassed easily enough:

make -C objdir/browser/installer BUILD_STATIC_LIBS=1

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

--enable-shared no longer exists.