Summary: | Google Gears firefox plugin cannot work under native amd64 | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Matthew Gregory Sr. <skyleach> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | caster, fusero, jstein, kevinlyles, pauldv, sean-gentoo, steev, wolf31o2 |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://code.google.com/apis/gears/gears_faq.html#runGearsOn64Bit | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Matthew Gregory Sr.
2009-10-02 19:05:09 UTC
I think I have something related to this issue. I am using www-client/mozilla-firefox (3.0.14) on a 32bit arch and trying to update Google Gears to 0.5.33.0 is not possible. I receive an error telling me that it not compatible with the type of version I use: Firefox (Linux_x86-gcc3) (In reply to comment #1) > I think I have something related to this issue. > > I am using www-client/mozilla-firefox (3.0.14) on a 32bit arch and trying to > update Google Gears to 0.5.33.0 is not possible. I receive an error telling me > that it not compatible with the type of version I use: Firefox (Linux_x86-gcc3) > +1 same here. $ uname -a Linux lightb0x 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Wed May 13 11:34:19 BST 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux I have the problem as well. It's kind of annoying as firefox keeps bugging me. I also believe that the old version causes instability in firefox. Same here (32-bit system on a 64-bit processor) $ uname -a Linux iqgryn 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #3 SMP Thu Nov 26 12:09:19 CST 2009 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5.4 This is extension related due to compiling firefox, if you use the binary it would not be an issue as they use wrappers to build. Simple solution is to build google gears plugin from source if you want it to be compatible. (In reply to comment #5) > This is extension related due to compiling firefox, if you use the binary it > would not be an issue as they use wrappers to build. Simple solution is to > build google gears plugin from source if you want it to be compatible. > The (binary) gears plugin worked with the (compiled) firefox on my system until 4-6 weeks ago, and in fact the old version of gears still runs on it (and bugs me to update about twice a day). It's funny that google declared support for HTML5 offline storage instead of Gears, Firefox supports it, but gmail still wants gears... after reading this, it is not clear to me if it is possible or not to use Gears with Gmail in Gentoo. i have installed firefox-bin but it goes on complaining: that the firefox type is not supported (Linux_x86_gcc3) I do not really know what is going on. I downloaded Google Gears gears-linux-opt.xpi file and its install.rdf file contains <em:targetPlatform>Linux_x86_64-gcc3</em:targetPlatform>. I suppose it is for x86_64 system. When I try to install it on Firefox (I have a native x86_64 system, and firefox-bin is used in my portage), this error message halts the install: "Google Gears" could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86-gcc3) If I'm right it says that I have Firefox built on 32bit. Firefox :about says: Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100824 Firefox/3.6.9 Firefox about:buildconfig says: ----------------------------- about:buildconfig Source Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/rev/340d4a429fe6 Build platform target i686-pc-linux-gnu Build tools Compiler Version Compiler flags /tools/gcc/bin/gcc gcc version 4.1.2 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-29) -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -W -Wno-long-long -pedantic -gstabs+ -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -Os -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions -finline-limit=50 /tools/gcc/bin/g++ gcc version 4.1.2 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-29) -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-long-long -pedantic -gstabs+ -fno-strict-aliasing -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -Os -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions -finline-limit=50 Configure arguments --enable-application=browser --enable-optimize --enable-update-channel=release --enable-update-packaging --disable-debug --enable-tests --enable-official-branding ---------------------------- Target named i686-pc-linux-gnu means 32bit system, does not mean? Upstream is dead. No activity here for a decade. I think there is nothing we can do about it here any more, so I close. |