911340 - Running mochitests via make does not work on Linux (but does on Mac)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 907476

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1)  Pull revision 0b408255c923 of mozilla-inbound.
2)  make -C ../obj-firefox mochitest-plain

EXPECTED RESULTS: Run the tests

ACTUAL RESULTS: 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "_tests/testing/mochitest/runtests.py", line 23, in <module>
    from automation import Automation
  File "/home/bzbarsky/mozilla/vanilla/obj-firefox/_tests/testing/mochitest/automation.py", line 34, in <module>
    from mozprofile import Profile, Preferences
ImportError: cannot import name Preferences

I get the same if I try to run runTests.py manually with the virtualenv python.  running mach from inside the objdir, on the other hand, works correctly.

I see the problem on Linux, but on Mac everything works fine.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Is there a mozprofile installed in your system Python? You can just try running python and "import mozprofile".

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Seems to be installed on both Mac and Linux, yes (though on Mac importing the module fails because there is no "manifestparser" module installed in the system python).

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 907476?

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Quacks like a dupe.