349498 - make 3.81 breaks packager.mk

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 339933

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

/usr/bin/perl -I../../xpinstall/packager -e 'use Packager; \
          Packager::Copy("../../dist", "../../dist/firefox", \
                         "packages-static", "unix", 1, 0, 1);'
Error: package file "SCALAR(0x816881c)" is not a file or is unreadable.


happens with make 3.81

see NEWS from make:

* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!                                            
  In order to comply with POSIX, the way in which GNU make processes            
  backslash-newline sequences in command strings has changed.  If your          
  makefiles use backslash-newline sequences inside of single-quoted             
  strings in command scripts you will be impacted by this change.  See          
  the GNU make manual subsection "Splitting Command Lines" (node                
  "Splitting Lines"), in section "Command Syntax", chapter "Writing the         
  Commands in Rules", for details.

Comment 1

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

Attachment: patch (1.8.0)

Comment 2

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

Trunk has already been fixed with bug #339933.
Maybe we don't need an official fix in 1.8.0 branch but 1.8.1 should be fixed, too. This could be handled in the trunk bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 339933 ***