521674 - manifest file not rebuild

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Joachim Herb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091011 Shredder/3.0pre ID:20091011191540

As described in Bug 519956 comment #20 and in this thread http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1529715&p=7723775#p7723775
rebuilding the sources of Thunderbird after changing the content of the jar.mn file in the directory mail/base/ does not correctly rebuild the file messenger.manifest in /obj/mozilla/dist/bin/chrome

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build the unmodified source: The icons in the customization dialog of the main tool bar are displayed correctly.
2. Build the source including the problematic line in the jar.mn(see first message). The icons are broken.
3. Remove the line in jar.mn again and rebuild. The icons are still broken.

Actual Results:  
During the first build the file obj/mozilla/dist/bin/chrome/messenger.manifest is created. Of course it does not contain a reference to messageHeader.css. This file (messenger.manifest) is changed during the second build. Now it includes a reference to messageHeader.css. After the third build the file still contains the reference to messageHeader.css despite the fact, that the file jar.mn does not contain the corresponding line. In fact, the content of the file is the same as after the second build (the file date and time has changed).

Expected Results:  
The messenger.manifest is rebuild correctly.

Comment 1

[Joachim Herb]

I am using the separate shared libraries build options
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Configuring_Build_Options#Statically_Linking_Components).