Hi Craig, Of course :) I have compiled Chromium numerous times in all platforms. I always run gclient sync --force in the "~/chromium directory (which has src, according to the wiki). Maybe it is just a hickup at my end, I will see if it happens again in the future.
Thanks! -- Mohamed Mansour On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Craig Schlenter <craig.schlen...@gmail.com > wrote: > > +chromium-dev > > --Craig > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Craig Schlenter <craig.schlen...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM > Subject: Re: [chromium-dev] Re: cryptoht.h not found > To: Mohamed Mansour <m0.interact...@gmail.com> > > > Hi Mohamed > > The instructions at > http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code say "6. > Updating your checkout once by running gclient sync --force in the > source code directory". Did you do that step? > > I'm not clued up on the inner details of gclient but from a quick > glance at the source reveals the following helpful comment: > > "Hooks > .gclient and DEPS files may optionally contain a list named "hooks" to > allow custom actions to be performed based on files that have changed in > the > working copy as a result of a "sync"/"update" or "revert" operation. > Hooks > can also be run based on what files have been modified in the working copy > with the "runhooks" operation. If any of these operation are run with > --force, all known hooks will run regardless of the state of the working > copy." > > That suggests that gclient sync --force should have run the hooks too > thus re-generating the scons files correctly. > > It is a bit strange that there are existing scons files in the tarball > but I suspect that's a side-effect of how the tarballs are generated. > BUG 6385 suggests that Pam or Tony might be able to shed some light on > that but I'd guess that gyp is being run in the tree before the > tarball is generated thus producing scons files that are incompatible > with your environment. > > --Craig > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Mohamed Mansour > <m0.interact...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Weird, > > > > I just received this error while compiling a "fresh" build on linux. > > Downloaded the tarball, and hammer (clean). The first error I saw on the > > screen was: > > cd: 1: can't cd to > > /auto/filer28.mtvvolmtvhome51/chrome-svn/tarball/chromium/src/base > > > > Then it stated: > > /home/m0/chromium/src/base/crypto/signature_verifier.h:11:22: error: > > cryptoht.h: No such file or directory > > > > I checked my pkg-config --cflags nss which returned: > > -I/usr/include/nss -I/usr/include/nspr > > > > I looked into it further and grep'd the gyp with mtvvolmtvhome51 and it > > appeared in couple. I had to do runhooks: > > gclient runhooks --force > > > > So my question, why does the tarball come with bad .scons files? Why > doesn't > > the gclient sync regenerate them? > > Maybe add another step to the linux process that will tell the user to > > regenerate them after initial build. Many users having this problem it > > seems. > > > > -- Mohamed Mansour > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---