515755 - fix WINCE in-source-dir builds

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Attachment: fix Makefile -> Makefile.standalone, and some misc changes

I don't advocate in-source-dir builds, but our tinderboxes sometimes do this.

Right now, build/wince/tools has both a Makefile and a Makefile.in, with Makefile.in doing an include $(topsrcdir)/build/wince/tools/Makefile.  After configure, the Makefile gets clobbered, and it puts make in an infinite include loop, leading to a cryptic make.exe error message (can't allocate space for cygwin heap).

The solution is to name that Makefile Makefile.standalone, but the tricky thing is that we need to rebuild the tools a second time, since the tools that configure produces are different than the tools that are used for the build (configure's tools don't force-link the shunt, since the shunt isn't built yet at that point).

Probably the most ideal solution is to use an environment variable to skip linking/including the shunt, and have configure export that, and have it build the same tools; but that can be done as a followup patch.

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Attachment: better diff

better diff

Comment 2

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

Comment on attachment 399847 [details] [diff] [review]
better diff

looks good (and much easier to read)

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

WinCE/Windows Mobile support has been removed from the main build system, Spidermonkey, mobile installer, in-app updater and so on (see bug 614720, bug 554087 and all their dependants). Until such point where MS decide to release a Windows Phone 7 NDK and the decision is made to port to that platform, this is WONTFIX.

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