recent problems with JFX ant script

[Erik Joelsson]

I have seen the same type of problem building the oracle internal deploy 
repository. My conclusion is that when building with devenv, it 
interprets environment variables as case insensitive. Cygwin does not 
and has both lower and upper case tmp and temp defined. Devenv doesn't 
like having multiple definitions of the same variable. Now to make 
things even more complicated, when running devenv, a background 
processes MSBuild is launched, and it's actually this process that 
triggers the error. It's left running and may or may not be picked up 
again when rerunning devenv, which explains the intermittent nature of 
the problem. Killing all the MSBuild processes in taskmanager and 
unsetting the lowercase tmp and temp solves the problem. For the javafx 
build, I would recommend adding tmp= and temp= prior to launching devenv 
when building in cygwin to have the problem universally solved. This is 
what I do in build infra.

/Erik

On 2013-02-14 21:32, Pete Brunet wrote:
> I ran into two new problems building JFX on Win 7 this week:
>
> 1) I had to unset lowercase tmp and temp.  Apparently there is a new
> problem with having duplicates, TMP/tmp and TEMP/temp.  This may be
> related to http://www.cmake.org/Bug/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=13131
>
> The failure appeared as:
>
> launcher-win:
>       [echo] STARTING: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.com native/windows
>       [echo] C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.com /build Release|Win32 IconSwap.vcxproj
>       [exec]
>       [exec] Microsoft (R) Visual Studio Version 10.0.30319.1.
>       [exec] Copyright (coffee) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
>       [exec] 1>------ Build started: Project: IconSwap, Configuration:
> Release Win32 ------
>       [exec] 1>C:\Program Files
> (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\Platforms\Win32\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.Targets(147,5):
> error MSB6001: Invalid command line switch for "CL.exe". Item has
> already been added. Key in dictionary: 'tmp'  Key being added: 'TMP'
>       [exec] ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0
> skipped ===
>
> 2) DEVENVDIR somehow gets unset.  I had to rerun vsvars.sh to fix it.
>
> This failure appeared as:
>
> needs-devenv:
>       [echo] Using
> C:\Users\Pete\JavaFX\controls-RT-26343\jfx\rt-closed\glass\glass-mat-lib-windows\${windows.vs.DEVENVCMD}.
>
> BUILD FAILED
>
> Both of these showed up when building on Windows 7 which I haven't done
> in a while.  I was just rerunning the ant script over and over after
> source code changes.  I use ant -Dhudson.jfx.job.name=8.0-controls-scrum
> sdk-no-docs
>
> Since the problem is intermittent I supposed these could be related to
> the combination of cygwin/Norton360.  I'll disable Norton auto-protect
> for a while to see if that helps, but wanted to let others know of this
> in case it's helpful.
>
> Pete