I just tried to emerge mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1-r1 on my ppc64 but failed with: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: nsSpecialSystemDirectory.o(.text._ZN20SystemDirectoriesKeyD0Ev[SystemDirectoriesKey::~SystemDirectoriesKey()]+0x24): unresolvable R_PPC64_REL24 relocation against symbol `nsHashKey::~nsHashKey()' /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output collect2: ld returned 1 exit status under directory: /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1-r1/work/mozilla/xpcom/obsolete. Emerge info: Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.1/multilib, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 ppc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r4 ppc64 PPC970, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Last Sync: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc64 -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home/mythtv/ /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=970 -mtune=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -mpowerpc64 -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://61.135.158.199 http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://ftp.tsinghua.edu.cn/mirror/gentoo http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en_US zh_CN" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/myPortage /usr/local/myPortage/xeffects" SYNC="rsync://61.135.158.199/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc64 X a52 aac aalib accessibility aiglx alsa alsa_cards_aoa alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol altivec apache2 asf aspell berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cpdflib cracklib crypt cups curl dba dbus dlloader dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif faac faad2 fb ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gd-external gdbm gif gimpprint glitz gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal ibm iconv imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux lcms ldap libg++ libwww linguas_en_US linguas_zh_CN mad mbox mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mpg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdl session slang spell spl sqlite ssl svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_ati video_cards_fbdev video_cards_radeon vidix vorbis wma x264 xanim xcomposite xine xml xml2 xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
mhh.. interesting.. and what about 2.0.0.1? does that compile? I thought I've read in another bug, that you have firefox working, don't you?
I think this is caused by the patchset not applying. I've committed a fix, please reopen if it isn't resolved after a sync.