951664 - make.exe crashes on win64 rev2 machines on Thunderbird release l10n repacks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

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Build logs indicate time out (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/candidates/27.0b1-candidates/build1/logs/release-comm-beta-win32_repack_1-bm85-build1-build0.txt.gz) but actually when you run the command manually you get a crash like on the attached screen shot.

Comment 1

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

Looks like make vs pymake issue, moving to the proper component.

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

any good ideas guys

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

My current theories are:

1) Try pymake on staging, see if we hit the same issues as before, if we do:
1a) try and fix them again
1b) move comm-central under mozilla-central
2) See if gmake 4 will work

I think 1 is more likely, not sure which between 1a and 1b would be best.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

That is, unless anyone else has any ideas as to what's happening here.

Comment 5

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

I thought we unsupported GNU make < 4 on Windows for all job types a long time ago. Or did we never get pymake working with l10n repacks.

Switch to pymake or glandium's special builds of GNU make 4 (preferably the latter, since that's the long-term solution).

Comment 6

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #5)
> I thought we unsupported GNU make < 4 on Windows for all job types a long
> time ago. Or did we never get pymake working with l10n repacks.

AFAIK, pymake *is* used for l10n repacks. *Firefox* l10n repacks.
 
> Switch to pymake or glandium's special builds of GNU make 4 (preferably the
> latter, since that's the long-term solution).

The long-term solution is actually a pristine gnu make 4, so i'd actually advise against the special build and use pymake instead.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Is this still a thing?
And if so, after 3 years still a blocker?  (as it is currently categorized)

Comment 8

[aleth [:aleth]]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, NI for questions) from comment #7)
> Is this still a thing?
> And if so, after 3 years still a blocker?  (as it is currently categorized)

If TB 50 beta release Windows repacks didn't have any problems, I should think this can be resolved.