826989 - cfx needs executable permission

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[arky [:arky]]

The installation documentation fails to mention that you need to set executable bit on cfx binary on linux/unix machines

 chmod +x bin/cfx

Comment 1

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

Where did you download the SDK from? I got it here: 

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/labs/jetpack/jetpack-sdk-latest.zip

I seem to have the executable bit:

jeff@aer ~> la addon-sdk-1.12/bin/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x   9 jeff  staff   306B  4 Dec 12:01 .
drwxr-xr-x  14 jeff  staff   476B  4 Dec 12:01 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 jeff  staff   2.3K  4 Dec 12:01 activate
-rw-r--r--   1 jeff  staff   4.3K  4 Dec 12:01 activate.bat
-rw-r--r--   1 jeff  staff   2.6K  4 Dec 12:01 activate.ps1
-rwxr-xr-x   1 jeff  staff   1.1K  4 Dec 12:01 cfx
-rw-r--r--   1 jeff  staff   256B  4 Dec 12:01 cfx.bat
-rw-r--r--   1 jeff  staff   550B  4 Dec 12:01 deactivate.bat
drwxr-xr-x   4 jeff  staff   136B  4 Dec 12:01 integration-scripts

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

That probably requires whatever you use to do the zip extraction to honour the permissions bit, though I think most do. Tar is probably more reliable.

Comment 3

[arky [:arky]]

I noticed that users who checked out from git and downloaded the zip had this problem at Add-on SDK workshop in Hanoi