361710 - Strange behaviour in browser/installer perl script

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 339933

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect)

Description

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

I'm experiencing this bug on a Fedora Core 6 system, i386.

- build firefox opt in an separate objdir
- cd obj-fire-opt/browser/installer
- make

This gives me the following output and aborts with an error:

Creating package directory...
rm -f -rf ../../dist/xpt
/usr/bin/perl -I/extra/moz/18/mozilla/xpinstall/packager -e 'use Packager; \
          Packager::Copy("../../dist", "../../dist/firefox", \
                         "packages-static", "unix", 1, 0, 1);'
Error: package file "SCALAR(0x808c75c)" is not a file or is unreadable.


Using some debug prints I learned, variable $package does not contain the expected string "packages-static", but when given to a print command, I get that SCALAR output. The hex value is different each time.

For testing, I ran the perl command line manually, same results.

Then I tried to run the perl command line with a single line, i.e. not breaking it up into multiple lines using backslash. To my surprise this works. I edited mozilla/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.mk and edited the original perl command below the stage-package target, and moved the second line of Packager::Copy up, eliminating the backslash, and that works, too.

Is this a bug in the perl engine shipped with FC6?
Or is there a bug in the perl script?

Comment 1

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

looks like a dupe of 339933, testing

Comment 2

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

indeed

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