452962 - make install no longer works on comm-central

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I've just been chatting to someone on irc, "make install" no longer works on comm-central.

The first problem is:

mail/installer: No such file or directory. Stop.

This seems to be caused by the fact the root Makefile.in is redirecting the install command to mozilla/ which then means we're in the wrong directory and hence can't find mail/installer.

They then tried running it in objdir-tb/mail/installer, the result was:

make: Nothing to be done for `install'.

So I'm not sure what happened there...

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> They then tried running it in objdir-tb/mail/installer, the result was:
> 
> make: Nothing to be done for `install'.
> 
> So I'm not sure what happened there...

(though later they said "it says I need --enable-static --disable-shared so I'll have to rebuild everything" - so it may just be the first bit that is broken).

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

Attachment: don't forward the install target to Mozilla

We can just remove our forwarding of the install target actually, as build.mk is handling this on our own toplevel.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Pushed as http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/4d3666c140e2