599570 - [Windows 2000] yasm.exe fails: "Not a valid Win32 app" or "Bad file number"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

I am eventually upgrading from MB 1.3 to MB 1.5.1.
After "fixing" bug 599567, I discovered this one.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/configure.in
{
4698   YASM_VERSION=`yasm --version | sed -nre "$_YASM_VER_FILTER"`

6004         if test "$_YASM_MAJOR_VERSION" -gt "1" -o \( "$_YASM_MAJOR_VERSION" -eq "1" -a "$_YASM_MINOR_VERSION" -ge "1" \) ; then
}
reports
{
.../configure: line 14252: .../mozilla-build/yasm/yasm: Bad file number

.../configure: line 17751: test: : integer expression expected
}
NB: The 2nd warning (empty check) is caused by the 1st one (failed version retrieval).

Manually, I get
{
$ yasm --version
bash: .../mozilla-build/yasm/yasm: Bad file number
}
I tried to move and run the file from various paths: no better.

Could it be that the shipped executable is incompatible with (my) Windows 2000?

NB: 'ac_add_options --disable-webm' still works for me, as a workaround.

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Ftr, the included yasm.exe in MB 1.5.1 is (identical to)
http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/wiki/Download
"Win32 .exe (for general use on 32-bit Windows)"
yasm-1.1.0-win32.exe

I tried various versions from that page:
*0.1.0 to 1.0.0: '--version' works fine.
*1.0.1 to 1.1.0: "Not a valid Win32 app" from cmd.exe.

I filed http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/ticket/225...

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

If this is win2k-only, then I think it is WONTFIX, and we'll just require Windows XP or higher as a build-time requirement.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Yeah, I can't say I particularly care. I haven't heard anyone else complain that it wasn't working.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

[Mid-air collision detected!]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I filed http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/ticket/225...

{
comment 1 ... by peter@...

... we switched to building the Win32 release with Visual Studio 2010; ... The
fix is probably to rebuild with an older Visual Studio or cygwin. I'll see if
we can do that for the next release.
}

(In reply to comment #2)
> If this is win2k-only, then I think it is WONTFIX, and we'll just require
> Windows XP or higher as a build-time requirement.

I would [have] suggest to leave this bug open until the yasm ticket is resolved
(either fixed or wontfix).
Ftb, '--disable-webm' is enough: no need to upgrade the requirements yet.

NB: I understand Windows 2000 is "deprecated", yet I would be happy if it could
still be used to build until at least Gecko 2.0 release/branch...