566230 - make in OBJDIR fails on Windows: msys-perl-wrapper (PERL) not found

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

NOTE: This probably affects TB, too, but I cannot tell (I'm not building TB).

Trying to build (make or make chrome) with MozillaBuild 1.4, VS 2005 and WinXP SP3 fails with the following error message if started in the OBJDIR:

/bin/sh: /c/mozilla-src/comm-central/build/msys-perl-wrapper: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile] Error 127

/c/mozilla-src/comm-central is my c-c checkout
/c/mozilla-src/seamonkey-central is my OBJDIR (PWD as of make call)

The problem source seems to be this line in $OBJDIR/config/autoconf.mk:

PERL        = /bin/sh /c/mozilla-src/comm-central/build/msys-perl-wrapper

This is clearly wrong since that doesn't exist. build/mozilla/msys-perl-wrapper exists, though.

Looking at /c/mozilla-src/comm-central/configure.in I found this line:

        PERL="/bin/sh ${MOZILLA_SRCDIR}/build/msys-perl-wrapper"

I guess MOZILLA_SRCDIR is wrong in this case for c-c. I don't know enough about build config to tell, though. Can someone please take over? I'll happily assist with testing of course.

I haven't check branch (2.0), only trunk.

Comment 1

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Sorry for the noise.

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Jens,

actually this looks like a slightly different issue.

It actually seems like you forgot to reconfigure. Since, by using MOZILLA_SRCDIR you should have it expanded to |/c/mozilla-src/comm-central/mozilla/...| where you don't. Bug 566167 was merely the relative-path-to-configure-run case.

Please verify this situation. Either way it should all be fixed (if you ensure you re-run autoconf and re-run configure). Though this *is* a different Bug than what I just fixed.

The cause that exposed it to you was the same though, the 1_9_2 ifdef removals (as I dropped the c-c copy of the msys-perl-wrapper file).

Comment 3

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Well, no need to reconfigure. I'm always building from scratch.
Anyway, after the checkin for bug 566167 "make" in the OBJDIR works again -> closing.