On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 08:10:59AM -0500, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017, at 12:18 AM, Rushikesh Jogdand wrote: > > I'm trying to build mozilla on Ubuntu 16.10 > > > > I did following:- > > 1. run ```bootstrap.py``` > > 2. clone mozilla-central repo > > 3. make mach executable <chmod 777 mach> > > 4. run ./mach build > > > > I'm getting following error:- > > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Rushi98/2852849c13b246e992eb8e407c4dd540/raw/4703db8b267eb7a6c15dada65f296d3b87ebfe15/error > > > Hi Rushikesh, > > That error is coming from the build system trying to run config.guess: > https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/autoconf/config.guess > > Is that file not marked as executable in your checkout? It should be! We > could definitely have a better error message for that, but it's a pretty > unlikely error. Is there a reason you had to chmod mach, as well? Both > of those files are committed with 0755 permissions in the repository: > https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/1d025ac534a6333a8170a59a95a8a3673d4028ee/mach > https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/1d025ac534a6333a8170a59a95a8a3673d4028ee/build/autoconf/config.guess
The executable bit on that file doesn't actually matter. We execute it with a call through sh directly. So the error would be on executing sh, not config.guess. Rushikesh, can you give more mach build output, specifically, anything that precedes the error. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
