471350 - Broken configure script?

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Timo Poikola]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 Iceape/1.1.14 (Debian-1.1.14-1)
Build Identifier: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/2.0a2/source/seamonkey-2.0a2.source.tar.bz2

I tried to compile Seamonkey-2.0a2 from source, but the configure script detects my compiler wrong.

Here is all output from script:
--cut-here--
$ ./configure
Adding configure options from ./.mozconfig:
  --enable-application=suite
  --enable-optimize
  --enable-update-channel=beta
  --enable-update-packaging
  --disable-debug
  --disable-tests
  --enable-codesighs
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking for gcc... /tools/gcc-4.1.1/bin/gcc
checking whether the C compiler (/tools/gcc-4.1.1/bin/gcc -gstabs+ ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
--cut-here--

And here is last few lines from config.log:
--cut-here--
configure:2270: checking whether the C compiler (/tools/gcc-4.1.1/bin/gcc -gstabs+ ) works
configure:2286: /tools/gcc-4.1.1/bin/gcc -o conftest -gstabs+   conftest.c  1>&5
./configure: line 2285: /tools/gcc-4.1.1/bin/gcc: No such file or directory
configure: failed program was:

#line 2281 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}
--cut-here--

Anyway, I'm a Debian user, and my system is Sid/unstable amd64.

$ ls -lh `which gcc`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2008-12-21 17:40 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.3
$ file `which gcc-4.3`
/usr/bin/gcc-4.3: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, stripped



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. tar jxvf seamonkey-2.0a2.source.tar.bz2
2. ./configure
Actual Results:  
Unable to configure

Expected Results:  
Executable binary.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

It seems quite likely that this is an error in your build environment. Our configure scripts use AC_PROG_CC to find a C compiler in your $PATH like every other configure script on the planet.

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

See-also: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Build_Documentation

Comment 3

[Timo Poikola]

Btw, this .tar.bz2 contains .mozconfig, and it defines variables CC and CXX.

$ grep tools .mozconfig
CC=/tools/gcc-4.1.1/bin/gcc
CXX=/tools/gcc-4.1.1/bin/g++

These paths are not correct for my build environment.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

We should not include the .mozconfig, it just happens to be the one we used for compiling the release builds. I'll avoid packaging it for Alpha 3.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

Timo, do you still have the same problem with the 2.0a3 tarball?

Comment 6

[Philip Chee]

No reply from the original reporter. Closing as Incomplete.