913547 - ./mach bootstrap to update to python 2.7.3 fails when homebrew isn't installed

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: Bootstrap Configuration, defect)

Description

[Nick Fitzgerald [:fitzgen] [⏰PST; UTC-8]]

Attachment: bootstrap.log

So python 2.7.3 is now required to build firefox now, but osx only comes with 2.7.2 so you are prompted to ./mach bootstrap. But it fails if you don't have homebrew installed.

Would be cool if it fetched the source and did

  $ ./configure
  $ make
  $ make install

for me instead of relying on homebrew.

Attached the partial log (sorry emacs clips my backscroll at 5000 lines).

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Fetched which source, Python? I don't think we want to make mach into a package manager, if it can delegate.

Comment 2

[Nick Fitzgerald [:fitzgen] [⏰PST; UTC-8]]

Well at minimum it should fail reasonably with a nice error message instead of making assumptions.

Comment 3

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

The log appears to be homebrew encountering an error when building Python. That seems to be a homebrew bug or an issue with the way your homebrew python is installed or an issue with a 3rd party Python installed in /usr/local conflicting with homebrew.

I'd run |brew uninstall python && brew install python| manually to see if that fixes it. You may also want to try |brew doctor| to have homebrew self-examine for known issues.

Comment 4

[Nick Fitzgerald [:fitzgen] [⏰PST; UTC-8]]

So apparently the IT folks installed homebrew before giving me the machine, even though I don't use it.

Comment 5

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

(In reply to Nick Fitzgerald [:fitzgen] from comment #4)
> So apparently the IT folks installed homebrew before giving me the machine,
> even though I don't use it.

Huh?! This is news to me! I was under the impression developers got freshly-imaged laptops with no "Mozilla-ware" on them.