523861 - Failing to build code coverage build on Windows 32

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Murali Nandigama [:murali]]

I am using a standard VMImage of WinXP for building on windows. Debug build builds well. Code coverage build using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Server edition happens well. But John O'Duinn and I discussed about this approach and found out that this would pose a lot of re-factoring risks to RE setup [ if we upgrade to MSVC9 Team Server Edition ].

So, I started looking at the next most popular alternative. Trying to build using 'BullseyeCoverage' tool.

BullseyeCoverage provides wrappers for 'cl', CC, C++ etc., that help to create a build that is instrumented. So, BullseyeCoverage sits ahead of the real MSVC9 'cl' in the %PATH%.

However, out build sanity checker that runs when we issue the command
'make -f client.mk build' fails with the following error

configure: error: This version of the MSVC compiler, 7.13.4
15.00.30729.01
9.00.30729.01 , is unsupported.
*** Fix above errors and then restart with               "make -f client.mk build"
make[1]: *** [configure] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/projects/mozilla-central/src'
make: *** [/c/projects/mozilla-central/src/../dbg/Makefile] Error 2

What is the work around?

Thanks
Murali

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I think bug is probably INVALID or WONTFIX, but if it isn't, it's Build Config, not releng

Comment 2

[Murali Nandigama [:murali]]

Can I make changes to Build config ?

Comment 3

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

you can definitely submit a patch

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Murali, it sounds easier to me to have a dedicated slave with MSVC 9 Team edition just for building code coverage builds... is that not possible?

That said, changing the configure test to account for a cl wrapper is not impossible, you just need to change the logic in configure.in to account for different/unexpected output from the wrapper than from MSVC itself.

Comment 5

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Old bug against ancient, now unsupported toolchain. Resolving.