Bug 124233 – stabilitze dev-lang/spidermonkey-1.5_rc6-r1 on x86

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description WL 2006-02-27 01:04:05 UTC]

This package is marked 'stable' on x86 and sparc. But the emerge process does not install the header files (jsapi.h, etc).

solution: use 1.5_rc6-r1 or 1.5 instead.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2006-02-27 07:40:08 UTC]

I am not going to maintain this package, ever, ok? It's very much broken upstream and it should probably be removed from the tree, possibly after replacement with some better JS engine. So jakub, please stop assigning it to me. Better to assign it to the entire list of devs who ever touched it. :-)

To hopefully make things entirely clear; I once improved the ebuild somewhat to possibly make www-client/elinks compile against it for hppa so that I could enable javascript support for hppa. It didn't work and all we got was a better spidermonkey ebuild. The source package (tarball) itself is still b0rked and hasn't gotten any love from upstream since Sep 24, 2004[1], while many of its files have seen updates[2] for use in Mozilla.

[1] http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/release-notes/
[2] http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js/src

[Comment 2 Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) (RETIRED) 2006-02-27 09:54:10 UTC]

No, you shouldn't put all devs into the CC who marked in on any other architecture.

[Comment 3 Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) (RETIRED) 2006-02-27 09:55:35 UTC]

[Comment 4 Michael Hanselmann (hansmi) (RETIRED) 2006-02-27 09:55:35 UTC]

 well, maybe not marked it, but touched.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2006-02-27 10:38:47 UTC]

well i did add spider monkey way back when ;)

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2006-02-27 18:00:22 UTC]

i would push everything back into ~arch personally ... not sure if that'll break some packages though

[Comment 7 Joshua Jackson (RETIRED) 2006-02-28 23:14:53 UTC]

It would only break one package currently. That being gxine-0.4.5 on x86 at least.

[Comment 8 Joshua Jackson (RETIRED) 2006-03-05 05:14:18 UTC]

From talking with flameeyes about gxine, he wondered if it was possible for the " mozilla team if they are able to provide a virtual/spidermonkey so that gxine can build against some other package a part spidermonkey itself?" 

So what do you fellow's say?

[Comment 9 SpanKY 2006-03-05 08:02:11 UTC]

that's a pretty vague statement ... what else would provide spidermonkey ?

[Comment 10 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-03-05 10:39:37 UTC]

IIRC gxine should be able to build against firefox's spidermonkey...

[Comment 11 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2006-03-09 16:58:43 UTC]

So what are we doing?  Is this version broken (it seems that someone thinks so)?  Is anyone going to maintain this?  :)

[Comment 12 SpanKY 2006-03-09 17:02:34 UTC]

spidermonkey-1.5-r1 is the only version i'd stabilize

[Comment 13 Joshua Jackson (RETIRED) 2006-03-12 22:57:54 UTC]

Stable on x86, flameeyes will this work for now..even if the intention is to eventially remove this package?

[Comment 14 SpanKY 2006-10-25 12:58:45 UTC]

old bug, this is all set now