To clarify: it only breaks the clobber of an existing old objdir.
Clobbering works fine henceforth.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:42 PM Nihanth Subramanya wrote:
> Note that the config.status changes in bug 844509 seem to break `$./mach
> clobber` - I had to manually rm -rf my objdir.
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:35 AM Mike Hommey wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In bug 1575135 and bug 844509, we've changed how configure handles
>> strings from files and subprocesses, to normalize everything to Unicode.
>>
>> On systems where the system locale is based on UTF-8 (e.g. most Linux
>> or macOS), this shouldn't make a difference.
>>
>> On systems where the system locale is not based on UTF-8, this might
>> cause problems, so please watch out, especially on non-Latin Windows.
>>
>> I don't believe things would have regressed (things should be handled
>> more or less similarly to before). I can think of a few things that
>> could fail, but for that matter, those I have in mind would have failed
>> before too.
>>
>> However, it is possible that a few corner cases that are not covered by
>> automation lead to configure complaining about some key or values not
>> being unicode strings. If that happens, please file bugs with your
>> mozconfig and as much detail as possible.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mike
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