[arch-general] firefox & gcc 4.3

Emmanuel Benisty benisty.e at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 16:19:25 EDT 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:58:06PM -0400, Eric Belanger wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:57:49AM +0700, Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:39:55PM +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
>>>> Hi, i have been trying to build firefox3b4 or firefox 2.0.0.12 for the
>>>> past day without success. I guess it has something to do with the latest
>>>> gcc upgrade to 4.3.
>>>> Has anyone managed to build it, from AUR or not, within the last couple
>>>> of days?
>>>>
>>>> ps. i am using the testing repo
>>>
>>> builds fine here. using [testing] on i686 and FF cvs
>>>
>>
>> http://rafb.net/p/tNKcg183.html
>>
>> line 44 seems to be the reason it fails. firefox 2.0.0.12 failed at some
>> other point but dont have it handy at the moment
>>
>> Greg
>>
>
> It needs to be patched to build with gcc 4.3.
>
> Add:
> #include <cstring>
>
> to crashreporter_linux.cpp
>
> see: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-March/005175.html 
> for explanation
>

FTR, I'm using
	ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
in mozconfig so I guess that's why I hadnt build errors.




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