898945 - Can no longer build DOM Inspector

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, defect)

Description

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

It used to be possible to build DOM Inspector by dropping it into extensions/inspector and changing the .mozconfig to

ac_add_options --enable-application=extensions
ac_add_options --enable-extensions=inspector

It's not possible to do this on 23.0b or mozilla-central anymore.

The build helpfully complains:
> The error occurred while processing the following file:
> 
>     /tmp/mozilla-beta/moz.build
> 
> The underlying problem is we referenced a path that does not exist.
> That path is:
> 
>     /tmp/mozilla-beta/extensions/app.mozbuild
> 
> Either create the file if it needs to exist or do not reference it.

So I created extensions/app.mozbuild with the contents:
> app_libxul_dirs = []
> app_libxul_static_dirs = []
> 
> add_tier_dir('app', 'extensions')

The build fails:
> *** Variable TIERS is defined in /tmp/mozilla-beta/obj-i686-pc-
> linux-gnu/Makefile. It should only be defined in moz.build files.

Now what?

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Your Makefile.in defines the TIERS variable, which is not allowed. TIERS comes from calling add_tier_dir() in the corresponding moz.build file now. This conversion was probably missed when things were ported to a moz.build world.

Comment 2

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #1)
> Your Makefile.in defines the TIERS variable

Not in dom-inspector/Makefile.in, and 

> grep -rie tiers ./dom-inspector

turns up nothing.

Comment 3

[Colby Russell :crussell (no longer Mozilla-ing)]

See http://hg.mozilla.org/dom-inspector/file/505c9c8dbd46/Makefile.in

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk close. This component is no longer supported or maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499023

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk close. This component is no longer supported or maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499023