389401 - Build horked using VC71+"make -jN" ("cannot open program database *.pdb")

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Trying to build using VC7.1, the build process chokes and breaks on *.pdb files. For instance:

e:/trees\20070613\mozilla\js\src\jsbool.c(0) : fatal error C1033: cannot open program database 'e:\trees\20070613\mozilla\js\src\js3250.pdb'

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Issue error when building MSVC7 with -jN, rev. 1

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Comment on attachment 273630 [details] [diff] [review]
Issue error when building MSVC7 with -jN, rev. 1

Not pretty, but better than random build failures, and probably the best you can do with make.

Comment 3

[cls]

Comment on attachment 273630 [details] [diff] [review]
Issue error when building MSVC7 with -jN, rev. 1

A better option would be to use .NOTPARALLEL so that the build just works regardless of which compiler is used.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Use .NOTPARALLEL, rev. 1

Comment 5

[cls]

Comment on attachment 273643 [details] [diff] [review]
Use .NOTPARALLEL, rev. 1

You should probably remove that test: target.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

fixed on trunk

Comment 7

[Mook (songbird dead account)]

This breaks because .NOTPARALLEL has a :: rule:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=/mozilla/js/src/xpconnect/src/Makefile.in&rev=1.85&mark=163#162
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=/mozilla/config/rules.mk&rev=3.564&mark=2140#2135

This actually horks non-parallel builds too :)

Comment 8

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Changed that to a single-colon rule.