458757 - Intermittent "ln: File exists" error in Sparkle when rebuilding

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

When rebuilding, I intermittently see this error:

ln: /Users/smokey/Camino/dev/trunk/CaminoTrunk/camino/sparkle/build/Release/Sparkle.framework/Resources/fr_CA.lproj/fr.lproj: File exists

rm -rf <objdir>/camino/sparkle/build/Release clears the message up for a while, but then it comes back.  I've previously confirmed that I have no fr_CA.lproj in my srcdir, and when uping in mozilla/camino, I always cvs up -dP.

Actually, it seems that cvs up -dP triggers the error (on next rebuild), even though there is no fr_CA.lproj in the srcdir after the cvs up -dP.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

BTW, I noticed this error in the boxset log from the other day, and boxset is just doing a standard pull:

/usr/bin/make -f client.mk MOZ_OBJDIR=../build checkout

I just checked the latest dep builds from the other three trunk tinderboxen, and they all show the error, too.

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

I've proposed the fix for this upstream (r349). Next time I sync Sparkle--which should be before b3, to get a couple more l10n changes--we'll get this if it's landed there, or I'll change it locally while we wait.

The reason the reproduction of this was confusing you, by the way, is that it doesn't start until the *third* build after a clean ;)

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

Fixed with the rev to r349.