firebox build fails post clang-3.4 merge
Thomas Mueller
mueller6724 at bellsouth.net
Thu Mar 6 12:06:12 UTC 2014
> > Does this mean the bug is fixed in 11-current?
> Yes, the bug is fixed in 11-CURRENT, as of Subversion revision r262809.
> > MFC? Is that to 10-STABLE? Your message is less than clear.
> In FreeBSD, fixes are first applied to head (a.k.a -CURRENT), then
> after a certain period they are merged to one more -STABLE branches,
> depending on the type of fix. This procedure is traditionally called
> a Merge From Current, MFC.
> In this particular case, I will merge the fix to both 10-STABLE and
> 9-STABLE. Older branches do not have clang, so merging the fix to
> them makes no sense.
> > I figure if firefox build fails, the bug would affect some other ports as well.
> Don Lewis already mentioned the libxul port, and in general, any port
> based on certain parts of the Mozilla source tree could be affected.
> -Dimitry
Thanks for response, but I went to FreeBSD website, got to mailing-list archives, in this case, svn-src-head.
This made me feel safe that the bug was fixed, and I can rebuild 11-head system.
But my last update might have been before the now-squashed bug was introduced.
Tom
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