Re: building unix installer outside normal tree

Sean Su wrote:
> Patch v1.0 is 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=119385&action=view.  It's 
> the last patch attached to the bug.  I would be very surprised if it did 
> anything with unix\deliver.pl as it's a win32 fix.  Once you apply this 
> patch, you can run the following from 
> ...\mozilla\xpinstall\wizard\windows\builder
> 
>    perl build.pl -h
Yikes, my bad ... sorry, downloaded the wrong patch by mistake, should 
have double-checked before asking. Just off to patch my system (doesn't 
apply cleanly to 1.3.1)
> 
> This will shoow you the cmdline help.  Basically, if you have a 
> MOZ_OBJDIR environment var set, you can do the following:
>    perl build.pl -objdir "%MOZ_OBJDIR%"
> 
> or just pass in the full path to your moz obj dir in quotes, like so:
>    perl build.pl -objdir "e:\mozilla\objdir"
> 
> build.pl will not look in your .mozconfig file as it's not part of the 
> normal mozilla build system.
Thanks for the extra info
> 
> David Fraser wrote:
> 
>> OK, I'm confused... which patch is which?
>> here's the list of patches from the bug (description + date + X if 
>> it's removed)
>>
>> fix build_static.pl when MOZ_OBJDIR set in mozconfig
>>   2002-08-10 09:59:19
>> objdir support for deliver.pl
>>   2002-12-04 23:56:37 X
>> add command-line option to build.pl
>>   2003-03-08 13:55:42 X
>> updated from Benjamin Smedberg that is merged with trunk
>>   2003-03-18 11:28:51
>> fix objdir installer for nsBuildID.h
>>   2003-03-28 22:54:51 X
>> make deliver.pl objdir aware & fix bogus strip errors in makexpi.pl
>>   2003-03-29 15:23:17
>> patch 0.1
>>   2003-04-03 11:40:40 X
>> patch v1.0
>>   2003-04-03 19:02:28
>>
>> fix build_static.pl (the first patch) just affects 
>> wizard/windows/builder/build_static.pl so that's presumably the one I 
>> should be using...
>>
>> I tried "updated from Benjamin Smedberg" but that failed to apply... 
>> it affects packager/make_stage.pl, packager/win_gre/makeall.pl, and 
>> wizard/windows/builder/build.pl
>>
>> "make deliver.pl objdir aware" affects packager/unix/deliver.pl and 
>> packager/unix/makexpi.pl ... in fact it's identical to patch 1.0 as 
>> far as I can see.
>>
>> patch v1.0 is the one I had downloaded, and only affects 
>> packager/unix/deliver.pl and packager/unix/makexpi.pl
>>
>> I'm trying to build version 1.3.1. Whether I apply the "fix 
>> build_static.pl" or not, I get the following:
>>  perl build.pl
>> file not found: E:/mozilla/src/mozilla/dist/bin/mozilla.exe
>> So it isn't looking in MOZ_OBJDIR, even though it's set in my .mozconfig
>> I tried setting it as an environment variable, that didn't help either...
>>
>> I notice this patch only fixes build_static, is there a fix for 
>> build.pl or should I try make one?
>>
>> Regards
>> David
>>