357043 - make -C objdir/browser/installer fails on FC6

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 339933

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Duggan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061011 Fedora/1.5.0.7-7.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061011 Fedora/1.5.0.7-7.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.7

Hello:
$ make -C obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer
make: Entering directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
/usr/bin/gmake export
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
gmake[1]: Nothing to be done for `export'.
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
/usr/bin/gmake libs
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
Creating package directory...
rm -f -rf ../../dist/xpt
/usr/bin/perl -I/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/xpinstall/packager -e 'use Packager; \
          Packager::Copy("../../dist", "../../dist/firefox", \
                         "packages-static", "unix", 1, 0, 1);'
Error: package file "SCALAR(0x9e1b7c8)" is not a file or is unreadable.
See '-e --help' for more information.
Exiting...
gmake[1]: *** [stage-package] Error 4
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'

Sorry that I don not know how to debug this errror, however this procedure has worked with FC4, FC5, but it fails with FC6
Any assisstance would be greatly apppreciated.

Dan

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make -f client.mk build
2.make -C obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer
3.

Actual Results:  
/usr/bin/gmake libs
gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
Creating package directory...
rm -f -rf ../../dist/xpt
/usr/bin/perl -I/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/xpinstall/packager -e 'use Packager; \
          Packager::Copy("../../dist", "../../dist/firefox", \
                         "packages-static", "unix", 1, 0, 1);'
Error: package file "SCALAR(0x9e1b7c8)" is not a file or is unreadable.
See '-e --help' for more information.
Exiting...
gmake[1]: *** [stage-package] Error 4
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/browser/installer'


Expected Results:  
A tar/ball file is created in /home/dan/fx_source/mozilla/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist




This procedure as outlined here:http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_and_Install
has worked fine with FC4, FC5 and the early releases of FC6 Test but fails on FC6 T3+
The .mozconfig file is / has been the same on all releases of Fedora.
So, not sure if this is a bug with Fedora 6 or with Firefox?

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

I take it this is either Fx 1.5.x or 2.0, and FC6 includes make 3.81? If so, it's bug 339933.

Comment 2

[Daniel Duggan]

Hello:
Thank you for your comments and the link to the correct bug. Apparently I did not do an adequate search.
It is indeed bug 339933
It is present with 1.5.7 and with all releases of 2.0 to date.

Dan

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

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