Bug 123564

Summary:	dev-lang/spidermonkey hardly works on anything but x86
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	robbat2, vanquirius, vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-20 17:39:45 UTC

The problem is that the libjs.so it produces is bad. vapier once tried all his best to explain why and how, but basically the Makefile.ref provided with the package doesn't do it. I am looking into writing an ebuild that uses mozilla sources directly (or even modifying a www-client/mozilla ebuild for this purpose) in order to build libjs properly so that other arches than x86 can properly link to it. Currently it doesn't, as evidenced by ebuilds such as those for www-client/elinks. To be absolutely clear about this: the js and jscpucfg executables do work on my PARISC system, but other packages cannot link to its libjs.

Comment 1 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-21 06:33:43 UTC

Hi,

I do not have anything but x86 to test on and apparently you know much more about spidermonkey. So, good luck :-).

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-02-27 17:59:54 UTC

1.5-r1 now in portage with cleaned up build

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2006-05-26 13:31:08 UTC

vapier: can this one be closed?

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-10-24 18:28:10 UTC

yes