91740 - path for perl files is hard coded

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Jens-Uwe]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010624
BuildID:    20010721

Since a while (I think since I upgraded to a new version of Suse 7.2), which
comes with 2.95.3 instead of 2.95.2) I am unable to compile Mozilla anymore. I
get a message which seems to tell me, that mozilla tries to start some Perl
scripts from a hardcoded directory instead of the one I have Mozilla installed.
I also had this problem when I first tested gcc3.0 on my old system, so it might
be something with the gcc, although I am not sure why, since make just searches
in the wrong dir.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a system with 2.95.3
2. install mozilla sources in a dir different from /opt/mozilla
3. "make distclean" (in case you are using an older tree)
4../configure --enable-strip-libs --enable-optimize --disable-debug 
--disable-pedantic
(thats my options...)
5. make
 

Actual Results:  [...]
Creating .deps_S
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jur/projects/mozilla/modules/libreg/standalone'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jur/projects/mozilla/modules/libreg'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jur/projects/mozilla/js'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jur/projects/mozilla/js/src/fdlibm'
Creating .deps
../../../config/nsinstall -R -m 444 fdlibm.h ../../../dist/include
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jur/projects/mozilla/js/src/fdlibm'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jur/projects/mozilla/js/src'
Creating .deps
/usr/bin/perl /opt/mozilla//config/build-list.pl ../../config/final-link-libs mozjs
Can't open perl script "/opt/mozilla//config/build-list.pl": 
make[2]: *** [export] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jur/projects/mozilla/js/src'
make[1]: *** [export] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jur/projects/mozilla/js'
make: *** [export] Error 2

(Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden = file of directory not found)

Expected Results:  the scripts should be searched in the right directory and
compile the sourcecode just fine

System = Suse7.2
gcc = 2.95.3

If you want more infos, just tell me

Comment 1

[Jens-Uwe]

GNU Make version 3.79.1

Comment 2

[cls]

Please attach:
.mozconfig
config/autoconf.mk
config.log
config.cache
a log of the output of the original 'make distclean'

Comment 3

[Jens-Uwe]

Attachment: wanted files as .zip

Comment 4

[Jens-Uwe]

christopher: i added the wanted files as .zip-file. it should be easy for you to
uncompress it.
there was no ".mozconfig" file, only .mozconfig.mk and .mozconfig.out. I removed
the leading point from the name, since I wasn't sure, what other OS would do
with it...

> a log of the output of the original 'make distclean'

I don't know, how to create this now, sorry

hope this helps...

Comment 5

[cls]

Well, the reason that I wanted the 'make distclean' output was to see if it
successfully removed all of the old cache files and such.  Everything looks right.

Do you have MOZILLA_DIR set in your environment?  The line in config/rules.mk
that your build is failing on is :        
@$(PERL) $(MOZILLA_DIR)/config/build-list.pl $(FINAL_LINK_COMPS) $(LIBRARY_NAME)

If you have MOZILLA_DIR set, you should unset it.  We do not automatically
override the envirnoment setting as it is used in Netscape builds.

Comment 6

[Jens-Uwe]

christopher:
yes, I just found that I have this MOZILLA_DIR variable set.  Looks like after
unsetting it Mozilla compiles fine :-)
Should this bug be marked invalid, since it is no real Mozilla bug? I guess I
have not the permissions on this account to do so...

Comment 7

[cls]

Yep, marking invalid.

Comment 8

[Jon Granrose]

verified invalid.