Open Bug 897928 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

build should ignore/remove empty *.o and *.xpt files

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: ttaubert, Unassigned)

Details

My system crashes quite a lot when building Firefox lately. While that's bad itself it very often leads to build failures when resuming the build process because we seem to write to .o and .xpt files directly. If I crash in between they will just remain on the disk as empty files.

Now I get either xpidl errors or failures when linking until I manually go and remove those empty files. One solution may be to write to temp files and move those when we're done. If that's too expensive can we maybe ignore or remove those empty traces?
Component: mach → Build Config
Summary: mach should ignore/remove empty *.o and *.xpt files → build should ignore/remove empty *.o and *.xpt files
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
Severity: normal → S3
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