Bug 345413 – www-client/chromium fails to build

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Florent D'halluin (Flal) 2010-11-14 14:58:54 UTC]

I just tried to compile it, it fails .. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -av www-client/chromium

Actual Results:  
fails with : 
out/Release/obj.target/net/libnet.a: could not read symbols: File format not recognized
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [out/Release/chrome] Error 1

Expected Results:  
compile nicely

localhost / # emerge --info =www-client/chromium-7.0.517.44
Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.34-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
                        System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r6-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3_CPU_540_@_3.07GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.3-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/"
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus device-mapper dri ffmpeg fortran gdbm gdu gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 jpeg libnotify modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl png policykit pppd pulseaudio python readline session sqlite ssl sysfs tcpd unicode x86 xft xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Florent D'halluin (Flal) 2010-11-14 15:30:34 UTC]

ok, and if I remove -fomit-frame-pointer and -pipe from my cflags, it also fails but with anoter error .. 

In file included from third_party/WebKit/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityRenderObject.h:33,
                 from third_party/WebKit/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityTableRow.h:32,
                 from third_party/WebKit/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityTableRow.cpp:30:
third_party/WebKit/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityObject.h: In member function 'virtual bool WebCore::AccessibilityObject::isCheckbox() const':
third_party/WebKit/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityObject.h:273: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.
make: *** [out/Release/obj.target/webcore_remaining/third_party/WebKit/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityTableRow.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

[Comment 2 Onteria 2010-11-14 16:06:20 UTC]

Looking over similar errors popping up on Google, it seems this can be triggered by an arch or CHOST change.  Did you make any changes to make.conf in those areas?

[Comment 3 Florent D'halluin (Flal) 2010-11-14 20:29:35 UTC]

Nope, I set up CHOST and march flags right at the install and never touched it since then .. 

[Comment 4 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-11-15 08:56:55 UTC]

Please post the full build log. Does it fail the same way every time you compile it?

This version of chromium and gcc has been arch-tested and marked stable on x86, so I'm very surprised that it's generating compile failures and ICEs.

[Comment 5 Florent D'halluin (Flal) 2010-11-15 10:41:53 UTC]

Ok, I just tried to recompile it (with the same flags (-march, useless -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe) than first time)  and it worked this time.. Can't test it over ssh, but I'll considered it fixed. 

This is really weird anyway. 
Can't it be a memory issue ? (I launched compilation over ssh, with no current gnome session opened this time) google warns that compiling chromium requires a lot of memory. It is strange though cause I have 4G of memory.. 

[Comment 6 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2010-11-15 11:29:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Can't it be a memory issue ?

I think that you can get "ld returned 1 exit status" when it runs our of memory or disk space. That might explain the intermittent nature of this problem.

> (I launched compilation over ssh, with no current
> gnome session opened this time) google warns that compiling chromium requires a
> lot of memory. It is strange though cause I have 4G of memory.. 

On my VM I have about 1.5 GB RAM + 2 GB of swap and chromium compiles fine. However, the more memory you have the faster it will link.