Hi!
Greetings from a happy ex MOZ_NSS_AUTOCONF user.
Tony Houghton wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chris Seawood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Tony Houghton wrote:
>>
>>>I can't work out how to compile 0.9.3 (or more recent CVS) with securit
>>>support. When it changed over to PSM 2 (IIRC), I eventually found out
>>>that I had to export MOZ_NSS_AUTOCONF=1 and go through the CVS checkout
>>>procedure to get some code that's been missing from the tarballs ever
>>>since, before using configure's --enable-crypto option. That doesn't
>>>work any more, configure warns that there's no configuration info in
>>>security/nss or something like that.
>>>
>>MOZ_NSS_AUTOCONF is now obsolete. Do not try to use it, it will not
>>work. Unset it. Just use --enable-crypto . If that doesn't work, then
>>file a bug.
>>
>
> OK, I made sure it wasn't set and started again:
>
> $ cd /usr/src
> $ rm -rf mozilla
> $ tar xvfj ~/downloads/mozilla-source-0.9.3.tar.bz2
> $ rm mozilla/client.mk
> $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot
> $ cvs login
> $ cvs co mozilla/client.mk
> $ gmake -f mozilla/client.mk checkout
> $ cd /usr/local/mozilla # Owned by me, currently empty
> $ ./configure ... --enable-crypto
> ...
> configure: warning: no configuration information is in security/nss
>
> The security/nss directory was completely empty in fact. make eventually
> fails because of this. So I tried building it in the source tree:
>
> $ cd /usr/src/mozilla
> $ ./configure ... --enable-crypto
> ...
> configure: warning: no configuration information is in security/nss
>
> Although this time there were some files there. Again, I pressed on
> anyway with the make, which failed with:
>
> cd crmf; make export
> make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/mozilla/security/nss/lib/crmf'
> Creating ../../../../dist/public/security
> /bin/sh: ../../../coreconf/nsinstall/Linux2.4_x86_glibc_PTH_DBG.OBJ/nsinstall: No
>such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [../../../../dist/public/security] Error 127
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mozilla/security/nss/lib/crmf'
> make[2]: *** [export] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mozilla/security/nss/lib'
> make[1]: *** [export] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mozilla/security/nss'
> make: *** [export] Error 2
>
> It doesn't seem to make any difference whether I use the unmodified
> tarball, try to pull extra modules but from the 0.9.3 release (by not
> deleting client.mk first), or go for the latest version as above.
I had the same problem ... solved it with:
1) do a make realclean
2) removing security/nss and security/coreconf
3) do a checkout with make -f client.mk checkout (assuming unix build)
4) build as usual, nss will be build from security/manager, don't try to
build it itself.
Worked for me ...
Andreas
