827547 - make fails without useful warning when more than one mozconfig present

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Malini Das [:mdas] - Away, not checking bugmail]

We had two versions of mozconfigs in the topsrcdir and when we ran:

make -f client.mk configure

We got the following unhelpful message: 

client.mk:109: *** Fix above errors before continuing..  Stop.

Instead, we should get a more descriptive message, telling us there is more than one config. Mach does this. The current error message we get leaves the user really baffled.

STR:
create a .mozconfig file in mozilla-central
create a mozconfig file in mozilla-central
run `make -f client.mk configure`

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Malini Das [:mdas] from comment #0)
> STR:
> create a .mozconfig file in mozilla-central
> create a mozconfig file in mozilla-central
> run `make -f client.mk configure`

(or "make -f client.mk build")

Comment 2

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Add this to the list of bugs that will go away once client.mk is rewritten in terms of mach commands or mozbuild.* Python modules :)