firefox3 build fails on alpha

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting Jeremy Messenger, who wrote on Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:44:11PM -0500 ..
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:23:52 -0500, Anton Shterenlikht  
> <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:07:38PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> firefox3 build fails on my alpha. Details below.
> >>
> >> Please advise
> >> anton
> >>
> >> # uname -mrs
> >> FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE alpha
> >> # sysctl -n kern.osreldate
> >> 603100
> >> #
> >>
> >> # cd /usr/ports/www/firefox3
> >> # make
> >>
> >> [skip]
> >>
> >> gmake[8]: Entering directory  
> >> `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla/xpcom/reflect
> >> /xptcall/src/md/unix'
> >> gmake[8]: *** No rule to make target `xptcinvoke_freebsd_alpha.o',  
> >> needed by `li
> >> bxptcmd.a'.  Stop.
> >> gmake[8]: Leaving directory  
> >> `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla/xpcom/reflect/
> >> xptcall/src/md/unix'
> >> gmake[7]: *** [libs] Error 2
> >> gmake[7]: Leaving directory  
> >> `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla/xpcom/reflect/
> >> xptcall/src/md'
> >> gmake[6]: *** [libs] Error 2
> >> gmake[6]: Leaving directory  
> >> `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla/xpcom/reflect/
> >> xptcall/src'
> >> gmake[5]: *** [libs] Error 2
> >> gmake[5]: Leaving directory  
> >> `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla/xpcom/reflect/
> >> xptcall'
> >> gmake[4]: *** [libs] Error 2
> >> gmake[4]: Leaving directory  
> >> `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla/xpcom/reflect'
> >>
> >> gmake[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
> >> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla/xpcom'
> >> gmake[2]: *** [libs_tier_xpcom] Error 2
> >> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla'
> >> gmake[1]: *** [tier_xpcom] Error 2
> >> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla'
> >> gmake: *** [default] Error 2
> >> *** Error code 2
> >>
> >> Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox3.
> >> *** Error code 1
> >>
> >> Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox3.
> >> #
> >>
> >>
> >> I used the default configuration:
> >>
> >>
> >> # make showconfig
> >> ===> The following configuration options are available for  
> >> firefox-3.0_2,1:
> >>      DBUS=on "Enable D-BUS support"
> >>      NEWTAB=on "Open external links in a new tab"
> >>      SMB=off "Enable smb:// URI support using gnomevfs"
> >>      DEBUG=off "Build a debugging image"
> >>      LOGGING=off "Enable additional log messages"
> >>      OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=off "Enable some additional optimizations"
> >> ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
> >> #
> >>
> >
> > A followup. It seems xptcinvoke_freebsd_alpha.cpp is missing. It
> > is used in Makefile:
> 
> I think most of us don't have any alpha machine. You might have to create  
> patch for us. I think, the alpha support has been dropped so it's  
> pointless for us to work on alpha support.

The latest release of FreeBSD supporting the Alpha platform port is
RELENG_6.  Anything newer no longer supports Alpha.

Wilko