On 30/03/2013 09:01, Gregory Szorc wrote:

> If MOZ_OBJDIR is literally ".." then depending on how client.mk is
> invoked, that '..' will be appended to the current working directory
> somehow. I think the exact semantics are partially undefined.
> 
> I highly recommend against defining MOZ_OBJDIR in terms of relative
> paths. You're implicitly creating a dependency on cwd. This is handy in
> a few use cases but it's a giant foot gun. Instead, do something like
> |mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-firefox|.

I'm running Windows7 and the mozilla-build system. We *have* to use
relative paths because some parts of mozilla-build (I can't remember
which) would choke on absolute paths.

Phil

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