585227 - TB 3.1.2 build fails due to unsupported compiler (VC10:16.00.30319.01)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[al_9x]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: 

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.builds/browse_thread/thread/1753cae16af3202f

According to
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions/Windows_Prerequisites
comm-1.9.2 + VC10 + MozillaBuild 1.5 should work, but it doesn't:
configure: error: This version of the MSVC compiler, 16.00.30319.01 , is 
unsupported.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Confirmed.  Someone didn't update mozilla-1.9.2's configure.in the way mozilla-central's was:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ceef8a5c3ca1
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.2/source/configure.in#549
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.1/source/configure.in#517

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

The build documentation was mistaken, sorry. I don't think we'll take those patches on branches, it's not worth it.

Comment 3

[al_9x]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The build documentation was mistaken, sorry. I don't think we'll take those
> patches on branches, it's not worth it.

I am assuming "not worth it" means you don't want to mess with working build files, but couldn't you include VC10 versions with a batch file to manually switch to them?

Comment 4

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Clearing blocking? flags.  As long as the build docs are consistent with what works, I'm fine with WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I am assuming "not worth it" means you don't want to mess with working build
> files, but couldn't you include VC10 versions with a batch file to manually
> switch to them?

It's more involved than that, we took patches to fix C++ compat issues, and we probably wouldn't take them on branch.