When I emerge mozilla (1.7.12-r2),mozilla-firefox(1.0.7-r2, and 1.0.6) my build fails. It says xpidl did a segmentation fault. I have a lot of CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf, so I tried without any CFLAGS, but it still gave the same error. I also tried : chpax -pemrxs xpidl, and then ebuild merge again, but still the same error. Note: I use gcc 3.4.4 (with ssp, and pie patches), but my kernel doesn't have the pax patches. Mozilla also blocks openoffice from building, since it wants to emerge mozilla before openoffice. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Each of these 3 cases cause a build failure: 1.emerge mozilla-firefox 2.emerge mozilla 3.CFLAGS="" CXXFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerge mozilla-firefox Actual Results: Creating _xpidlgen/.done nsIConsoleListener.idl ../../dist/bin/xpidl -m header -w -I. -I../../dist/idl -o _xpidlgen/ nsIConsoleListener nsIConsoleListener.idl gmake[3]: *** [_xpidlgen/nsIConsoleListener.h] Segmentation fault gmake[3]: *** Deleting file `_xpidlgen/nsIConsoleListener.h' gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2/work/ mozilla/xpcom/base' gmake[2]: *** [export] Error 2 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2/work/ mozilla/xpcom' gmake[1]: *** [tier_2] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2/work/ mozilla' make: *** [default] Error 2 Expected Results: build mozilla, and install Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6. 13-ck7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-ck7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -momit- leaf-frame-pointer -ftracer -fno-ident -funroll-loops -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fprefetch-loop-arrays -malign-double -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/ share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb / usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fforce-addr -momit- leaf-frame-pointer -ftracer -fno-ident -funroll-loops -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fprefetch-loop-arrays -malign-double -ffast-math -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/ http://ftp.lug.ro/ gentoo/" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d acpi alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap- fonts bzip2 caps cdr clamav crypt cups curl curlwrappers dbus dga dio directfb dlloader dri eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd exif expat fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran ftp gb gdbm geoip gif ginac glut gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg kde lesstif libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod mime mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl plotutils png posix python qt quicktime readline sdl session sharedmem skey slang sockets socks5 spell sse ssl symlink sysvipc tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vcd vorbis xine xml2 xmms xosd xprint xv yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS
Have you tried the later Firefox releases 1.0.7-r4 or 1.5.0.x at all? The other thing you might like to try, is turning down those CFLAGS. Something like "-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe", or even -O2. -ffastmath should definately be taken out, it's known to cause issues... in fact, I can be almost certain that it's causing problems here. Can you try the suggestions above (newer ebuild and reducing CFLAGS) and report back? Thanks.
(In reply to comment #1) > Have you tried the later Firefox releases 1.0.7-r4 or 1.5.0.x at all? I opened this bug a year ago. Since then I compiled firefox successfully, but I forgot to close this bugreport.
