354589 - make failes with a perl error when trying to make installer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 339933

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Wino Bino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060914 BonEcho/2.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060914 BonEcho/2.0b2

When trying to make the Installer, this happens:
winobino@riemann:~/build/ff2rc1/mozilla <0>$ make -C ff-opt-static/browser/installer
make: Gehe in Verzeichnis '/home/winobino/build/ff2rc1/mozilla/ff-opt-static/browser/installer'
/usr/bin/make export
make[1]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/home/winobino/build/ff2rc1/mozilla/ff-opt-static/browser/installer'
make[1]: Für das Ziel »export« ist nichts zu tun.
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/winobino/build/ff2rc1/mozilla/ff-opt-static/browser/installer'
/usr/bin/make libs
make[1]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/home/winobino/build/ff2rc1/mozilla/ff-opt-static/browser/installer'
Creating package directory...
rm -f -rf ../../dist/xpt
/usr/bin/perl -I/home/winobino/build/ff2rc1/mozilla/xpinstall/packager -e 'use Packager; \
          Packager::Copy("../../dist", "../../dist/firefox", \
                         "packages-static", "unix", 1, 0, 1);'
Error: package file "SCALAR(0x8149690)" is not a file or is unreadable.
See '-e --help' for more information.
Exiting...
make[1]: *** [stage-package] Fehler 4
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/winobino/build/ff2rc1/mozilla/ff-opt-static/browser/installer'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2
make: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/home/winobino/build/ff2rc1/mozilla/ff-opt-static/browser/installer'

Reproducible: Always




Compiled on Ubuntu Edgy Eft, using perl v5.8.8
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# cat .mozconfig 
. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/ff-opt-static
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-static
ac_add_options --disable-shared
ac_add_options --disable-tests
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
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make -C ff-opt-static/browser/installer
works fine...

Comment 1

[Wino Bino]

Argh, Last line should read: 
make -f client.mk build
works fine
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Additionaly: I had this Problem with Firefox2b1, Firefox2b2, Firefox2rc1

Comment 2

[cls]

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