Bug#888638: firefox: FTBFS on powerpc and ppc64: Error updating ICU data file

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 11:31:10PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Source: firefox
> Version: 58.0-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> User: debian-powerpc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: powerpc ppc64
> 
> Builds of firefox for powerpc and ppc64 (the only big-endian
> architectures rustc supports at present, and admittedly not release
> architectures) have been failing lately.  As of 58.0-1, the
> (immediate) errors take the form
> 
>   cd build-browser && MOZCONFIG=mozconfig.icu ../mach python ../intl/icu_sources_data.py "/«PKGBUILDDIR»"
>   New python executable in /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/_virtualenv/bin/python2.7
>   Also creating executable in /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/_virtualenv/bin/python
>   Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
>   WARNING: Python.h not found. Install Python development headers.
>   Error processing command. Ignoring because optional. (optional:setup.py:third_party/python/psutil:build_ext:--inplace)
>   Error processing command. Ignoring because optional. (optional:packages.txt:comm/build/virtualenv_packages.txt)
>   Error running "make" in directory /tmp/icu-obj-aDwfA5
>       See output in /tmp/icu-make84ZXyL
>   Error updating ICU data file
>   Updating ICU sources lists...
>   Running ICU configure...
>   Running ICU make...
>   debian/rules:205: recipe for target 'stamps/configure-browser' failed
>   make[1]: *** [stamps/configure-browser] Error 1

That's https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mozilla/iceweasel.git/commit/?id=59b10a894609e47228d8548a0265c1a9fd64f57e

Fixed in firefox-esr and in upstream firefox in version 59.

> When I tried to reproduce these errors on porter boxes for both
> architectures to see what they actually were, I ran into *different*
> errors:
> 
>   cd build-browser && MOZCONFIG=mozconfig.icu ../mach python ../intl/icu_sources_data.py "/home/ucko/firefox"
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "../mach", line 86, in <module>
>       main(sys.argv[1:])
>     File "../mach", line 78, in main
>       mach = get_mach()
>     File "../mach", line 68, in get_mach
>       mach = check_and_get_mach(dir_path)
>     File "../mach", line 42, in check_and_get_mach
>       return load_mach(dir_path, mach_path)
>     File "../mach", line 30, in load_mach
>       return mach_bootstrap.bootstrap(dir_path)
>     File "/home/ucko/firefox/build/mach_bootstrap.py", line 335, in bootstrap
>       driver.load_commands_from_file(os.path.join(mozilla_dir, path))
>     File "/home/ucko/firefox/python/mach/mach/main.py", line 267, in load_commands_from_file
>       imp.load_source(module_name, path)
>     File "/home/ucko/firefox/build/valgrind/mach_commands.py", line 16, in <module>
>       from mozbuild.base import (
>     File "/home/ucko/firefox/build/mach_bootstrap.py", line 364, in __call__
>       module = self._original_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
>     File "/home/ucko/firefox/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/base.py", line 16, in <module>
>       from mach.mixin.process import ProcessExecutionMixin
>     File "/home/ucko/firefox/build/mach_bootstrap.py", line 364, in __call__
>       module = self._original_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
>     File "/home/ucko/firefox/python/mach/mach/mixin/process.py", line 29, in <module>
>       raise Exception('Could not detect environment shell!')
>   Exception: Could not detect environment shell!
>   debian/rules:205: recipe for target 'stamps/configure-browser' failed

This one is kind of a bummer, but is only because you don't have the
SHELL environment variable set.

Mike