[arch-general] firefox & gcc 4.3

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 16:32:51 EDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:19:25AM +0700, Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
> 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.
> 

Taking advantage of the opportunity would you mind sharing your
mozconfig ?

Greg




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