954661 - Make pymake work for Instantbird's slaves

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Chat Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Quentin Raynaud]

*** Original post on bio 1229 at 2012-01-07 15:10:00 UTC ***

*** Due to BzAPI limitations, the initial description is in comment 1 ***

Comment 1

[Quentin Raynaud]

Attachment: bug-2.sh and bug-2.log files

*** Original post on bio 1229 as attmnt 1112 at 2012-01-07 15:10:00 UTC ***

Right now, the last issues about pymake is on the distribution step.

Issue 1:
pymake don't handle well windows paths and only accepts msys paths. If a command contains the path "C:/mozilla-build/msys/bin/sh", pymake will fail saying that the file is not found. Replacing C: by /c makes it work. That should be fixed (or every executables in the mozilla build system should be set with a msys style path, which is not the case right not, like for $(SHELL))

Issue 2:
Variables are not handled properly by pymake. Just tryout the bug.sh file attached to see this. Invoke it with something like this:
bash bug-2.sh gmake "python -OO build/pymake/make.py"

You should have an error looking like the one found in bug-2.log

Comment 2

[Quentin Raynaud]

*** Original post on bio 1229 at 2012-01-07 15:58:18 UTC ***

I opened https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716235 on mozilla's bugzilla about the issue 2. I miss a reviewer's name that might look quickly enough about this though.

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

pymake is deprecated, the new thing is mach (which uses mozmake on Windows).