488074 - nsinstall fails with path names that include carat "^" characters

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; ja; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: 

When I build xulrunner /home/user/hg/mozilla-central/objdir-windows-mobile-debug-no-jemalloc with MozillaBuildSetup-1.3, nsinstall fails in toolkit/mozapps/downloads/tests.


nsinstall: cannot copy c:\cygwin\home\user\hg\mozilla-central\toolkit\mozapps\do
wnloads\tests\chrome\unknownContentType_dialog_layout_data.txt^headers^ to ..\..
\..\..\..\_tests\testing\mochitest\chrome\toolkit\mozapps\downloads\tests\chrome
\unknownContentType_dialog_layout_data.txt^headers^: The system cannot find the
path specified.

nsinstall: cannot copy c:\cygwin\home\user\hg\mozilla-central\toolkit\mozapps\do
wnloads\tests\chrome\unknownContentType_dialog_layout_data.pif^headers^ to ..\..
\..\..\..\_tests\testing\mochitest\chrome\toolkit\mozapps\downloads\tests\chrome
\unknownContentType_dialog_layout_data.pif^headers^: The system cannot find the
path specified.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Thanks for the bug report.

The pathnames that cause nsinstall to fail are not that
long.  But they all end with ^headers^.  We should find
out why.  Do you know what ^headers^ is, and where the
^ characters come from?

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Those files are used to modify the behavior of the JS HTTP server used for unit tests:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Httpd.js/HTTP_server_for_unit_tests#Header_modification_for_files

This doesn't appear to be an NSPR bug.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

The nsinstall that MozillaBuild ships with is some weird old windows port.

Hiroyuki: what's up with the c:\cygwin in your pathnames. You're not actually mixing cygwin in there somewhere, are you?

Comment 4

[Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> The nsinstall that MozillaBuild ships with is some weird old windows port.
> 
> Hiroyuki: what's up with the c:\cygwin in your pathnames. You're not actually
> mixing cygwin in there somewhere, are you?

Hmm, I don't know what is wrong on my environment. 
Anyway, I get the error only on 
/home/user/hg/mozilla-central/objdir-windows-mobile-debug-no-jemalloc. There is no error on /home/user/hg/mozilla-central/objdir-wm6-dbg.

What's the difference?

Comment 5

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

We shouldn't be using nsinstall for these file copies any more. `hg files 'glob:**^**'` says we have plenty of files with ^ in them and nobody has been complaining. So this seems to have worked itself out.