firefox3 under powerpc not building
Andreas Tobler
andreast-list at fgznet.ch
Sun Aug 16 12:01:17 UTC 2009
Andreas Tobler wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 21:55 +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote:
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> replying to myself.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andreas Tobler wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can not build firefox3 (3.0.13 and up) under FreeBSD -CURRENT. As far
>>>> as I tracked down it is an issue in the firefox sources itself.
>>>>
>>>> The last working build I had was 3.0.10.
>>>>
>>>> Here in this area it breaks:
>>>>
>>>> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.1/diff?file=/security/nss/lib/freebl/Makefile&diffvar=mozilla1.8.0
>>>>
>>>> The below snippet does somehow not work.
>>>> -----
>>>> # some code wants _X86_ defined for intel CPUs.
>>>> # coreconf does this for windows, but not for Linux, FreeBSD, etc.
>>>> ifeq (,$(filter-out x86 x86_64,$(CPU_ARCH)))
>>>> ifneq (,$(filter-out WIN%,$(OS_TARGET)))
>>>> DEFINES += -D_X86_
>>>> endif
>>>> endif
>>>> -----
>>> It does not work on powerpc since the CPU_ARCH is set to x86 in
>>> security/coreconf/FreeBSD.mk, gah!
>>>
>>>> On powerpc I get the -D_X86_ passed to the compile options, very bad.
>>>> But I do not understand why. Might be that the first filter-out does not
>>>> work as expected?
>>>>
>>>> I compared with an x86 build and with an x86_64 build. On the x86 it
>>>> works as expected. But also under der x86_64 it does not do what I
>>>> expect. Under x86_64 I'd expect the -D_X86_ in the compile options, right?
>>> The x86_64 case is also clear now, the CPU_ARCH is set to amd64, so the
>>> -D_X86_ is not set. We might need a patch to
>>> security/nss/lib/freebl/Makefile which also includes the amd64 to the
>>> first filter-out above? Like this one:
>> Thanks for these patches. Can you resend them as attachments (or post
>> them) so they can be easily extracted?
>
> Here it is, the powerpc one. It is against 3.0.13 source base. The amd64
> I did not follow up since it does build, with or without -D_X86_ on amd64.
Forget the previous post, here is the working one. A missing endif....
Andreas
-------------- next part --------------
--- security/coreconf/FreeBSD.mk.orig 2009-07-30 17:30:28.000000000 +0200
+++ security/coreconf/FreeBSD.mk 2009-08-10 22:22:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -45,8 +45,16 @@
ifeq ($(OS_TEST),alpha)
CPU_ARCH = alpha
else
+ifeq ($(OS_TEST),amd64)
+CPU_ARCH = amd64
+else
+ifeq ($(OS_TEST),powerpc)
+CPU_ARCH = powerpc
+else
CPU_ARCH = x86
endif
+endif
+endif
OS_CFLAGS = $(DSO_CFLAGS) -ansi -Wall -Wno-switch -DFREEBSD -DHAVE_STRERROR -DHAVE_BSD_FLOCK
@@ -73,7 +81,7 @@
DLL_SUFFIX = so.1.0
endif
-MKSHLIB = $(CC) $(DSO_LDOPTS)
+MKSHLIB = $(CC) -Wl,-Bsymbolic -lc $(DSO_LDOPTS) -o $@
ifdef MAPFILE
MKSHLIB += -Wl,--version-script,$(MAPFILE)
endif
@@ -82,4 +90,4 @@
G++INCLUDES = -I/usr/include/g++
-INCLUDES += -I/usr/X11R6/include
+#INCLUDES += -I/usr/local/include
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