960048 - Infinite error message loop when building comm-central

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

5:48.86 Error remaking makefiles (ignored)
 5:49.08 Evaluation of your mozconfig exited with an error. This could be trigge
red
 5:49.08 by a command inside your mozconfig failing. Please change your mozconfi
g
 5:49.08 to not error and/or to catch errors in executed commands.
 5:49.08 Traceback (most recent call last):
 5:49.08   File "h:\m\comm-central\mozilla\build\pymake\pymake\process.py", line
 394, in run
 5:49.08     rv = m.__dict__[self.method](self.argv)
 5:49.08   File "h:\m\comm-central\mozilla\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\action\webid
l.py", line 12, in main
 5:49.08     manager = BuildSystemWebIDL.from_environment().manager
 5:49.08   File "h:\m\comm-central\mozilla\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\base.py", li
ne 163, in from_environment
 5:49.08     config = loader.read_mozconfig(mozconfig)
 5:49.08   File "h:\m\comm-central\mozilla\python\mozbuild\mozbuild\mozconfig.py
", line 196, in read_mozconfig
 5:49.08     raise MozconfigLoadException(path, MOZCONFIG_BAD_EXIT_CODE, lines)
 5:49.08 MozconfigLoadException: Evaluation of your mozconfig exited with an err
or. This could be triggered
 5:49.08 by a command inside your mozconfig failing. Please change your mozconfi
g
 5:49.08 to not error and/or to catch errors in executed commands.
 5:49.08 h:\m\comm-central\obj-i686-pc-mingw32\mozilla\dom\bindings\Makefile:72:
0: command 'mozbuild.action.webidl main h:/m/comm-central/mozilla/dom/bindings'
failed, return code -127

...(repeating forever)

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

... h:\m\comm-central\obj-i686-pc-mingw32 ...

I believe the obj-dir must be outside comm-central now.

Comment 2

[Tom Prince [:tomprince]]

I think the build system has been changed enough that this is no longer an issue. If you still have problems, please file a new bug.