Created attachment 604590 [details] compressed build log there's a problem when compiling with gcc on armv7 and enabled neon instructions: 9:16.50 /usr/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-73.0_beta3/work/firefox-73.0/gfx/2d/SwizzleNEON.cpp:423:49: error: cannot convert 'uint8x16_t' {aka '__vector(16) unsigned char'} to 'uint16x8_t' {aka '__vector(8) short unsigned int'} 9:16.50 423 | vst1q_u16(reinterpret_cast<uint16_t*>(dst), px); -- 9:16.50 /usr/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-73.0_beta3/work/firefox-73.0/gfx/2d/SwizzleNEON.cpp:430:75: required from here 9:16.50 /usr/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-73.0_beta3/work/firefox-73.0/gfx/2d/SwizzleNEON.cpp:415:30: error: cannot convert 'uint16x8_t' {aka '__vector(8) short unsigned int'} to 'uint8x16_t' {aka '__vector(16) unsigned char'} in initialization 9:16.50 415 | uint8x16_t px = vld1q_u16(reinterpret_cast<const uint16_t*>(src)); -- 9:16.50 /usr/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-73.0_beta3/work/firefox-73.0/gfx/2d/SwizzleNEON.cpp:431:74: required from here 9:16.50 /usr/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-73.0_beta3/work/firefox-73.0/gfx/2d/SwizzleNEON.cpp:415:30: error: cannot convert 'uint16x8_t' {aka '__vector(8) short unsigned int'} to 'uint8x16_t' {aka '__vector(16) unsigned char'} in initialization 9:16.50 gmake[4]: *** [/usr/armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-73.0_beta3/work/firefox-73.0/config/rules.mk:738: SwizzleNEON.o] Error 1 the initial changes were add with the patch from this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601622 and there's a second bug to discuss a possible fix for gcc: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610814 the patch to make it all work can be found here: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b3d8b08265b8 at the moment it has only been added to the nightly branch, and not been backported yet to the firefox-73 beta branch, where this was broken initially. so, do you think you can add this patch to the queue for the final release of firefox-73.0, in case the patch doesn't make it into the final release?
Created attachment 604592 [details] output from emerge --info (cross-target)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/mozilla.git/commit/?id=3a185d8621c3e5cab0a0a276c2c958b0004a7531 commit 3a185d8621c3e5cab0a0a276c2c958b0004a7531 Author: Jory Pratt <anarchy@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-02-02 01:27:13 +0000 Commit: Jory Pratt <anarchy@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-02-02 01:27:13 +0000 www-client/firefox: Fix arm neon compilation Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/706422 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.87, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Jory Pratt <anarchy@gentoo.org> www-client/firefox/Manifest | 2 +- www-client/firefox/firefox-73.0_beta11.ebuild | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
