482639 - Building Prism in release mode should not leave symbolic links

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Prism, defect)

Description

[Romain Huet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020412 Prism/0.9.1

After building Prism, especially in release mode, some symbolics links can be listed in the build directory. It would be better to have all the Prism files without any links in this directory.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Retrieve all the Mozilla source code from the versioning system.
2. Retrieve the Prism source code from the Prism versioning system and export it as a 'prism' directory at the root of the mozilla tree.
3. Write a .mozconfig file in the 'mozilla' folder in order to mention "prism" as the project to be built.
4. Launch the build command:
   $ make -f client.mk build
5. List the files in the build directory:
   $ ls -Rl prism/dist/bin
Actual Results:  
Some symbolic links are listed in the following directories:
prism/dist/bin
prism/dist/bin/chrome/icons/default
prism/dist/bin/components
prism/dist/bin/modules
prism/dist/bin/res

Expected Results:  
The prism/dist/bin directory should contain the Prism application without any symbolic links so that it is ready for release.

For now, a possible workaround to remove the links is to run the command below which will export the build and follow all the symbolic links:
$ cp -RL prism/dist/bin export/path/for/prism

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Prism isn't maintained anymore. Mass closing of the bugs.