Bug 332 – Mozilla 0.9.7 does not build.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Thomas Tongue 2002-01-25 14:20:13 UTC]

When I try to merge Mozilla 0.9.7 into my install, it builds for a while and
gives me:

/usr/bin/perl -I../../config ../../config/build-list.pl
../../dist/include/xpcom/.headerlist nsIThread.h nsIThreadPool.h nsIRunnable.h
nsIEventQueue.h nsIEventQueueService.h nsIProcess.h
make[3]: *** [export] Segmentation fault
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-0.9.7/work/mozilla/xpcom/threads'
make[2]: *** [export] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-0.9.7/work/mozilla/xpcom'
make[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-0.9.7/work/mozilla'
make: *** [default] Error 2

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 79, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla/mozilla-0.9.7.ebuild .

So far I haven't had any trouble with builds on this system. I have X and Gnome
up and running, along with the kernel, so I think the system is pretty stable.
Suggestions on how to proceed?

(Note: This was submitted with a Nightly Build of Mozilla that I pulled off
Mozilla.org, which is ok except that it doesn't satisfy dependencies for other
packages, such as Evolution, Nautilus or Galeon...)

[Comment 1 Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) 2002-01-25 18:50:44 UTC]

Hmm .. strange, never had any problems building mozilla 0.9.7...

[Comment 2 Thomas Tongue 2002-01-31 12:10:04 UTC]

I've tried doing the Mozilla build a few more times, and each time it fails in a
different spot. It its useful, I can post some of the fail spots, but I think
the problem is not with Mozilla but the build environment or parameters. Which
is really strange, because I've successfully built the GNOME and KDE
environments and they both work great. 

A similar problem is cropping up with the latest perl ebuild. See bug #458 for a
description of that problem and some more information on my make.conf parameters
(I don't think there is anything too whack in there).

I'm open to suggestions or areas of further exploration.

[Comment 3 Thomas Tongue 2002-01-31 16:44:16 UTC]

Here is another example of Mozilla failing to build:

gcc -o crc32.o -c -DOSTYPE=\"Linux2.4\" -DOSARCH=\"Linux\" -DOJI -I./../src 
-I../../../dist/include/zlib -I../../../dist/include
-I/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-0.9.7-r1/work/mozilla/dist/include/nspr     
-I/usr/X11R6/include   -fPIC -I/usr/X11R6/include -Wall -W -Wno-unused
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -mcpu=k6 -march=k6 -O3 -pipe
-pthread -pipe  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O3  -I/usr/X11R6/include -include
../../../config-defs.h -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -Wp,-MD,.deps/crc32.pp crc32.c
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make[2]: *** [crc32.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-0.9.7-r1/work/mozilla/modules/zlib/standalone'
make[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-0.9.7-r1/work/mozilla'
make: *** [default] Error 2

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 79, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on  /usr/portage/net-www/mozilla/mozilla-0.9.7-r1.ebuild .
root@stkilda mozilla # cpp0: output pipe has been closed

[Comment 4 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-02-01 16:10:46 UTC]

This is due to bad CPU or memory; use "memtest86" (see freshmeat) to test your
memory.

[Comment 5 Thomas Tongue 2002-02-01 17:36:46 UTC]

If it were bad memory or CPU, then other large packages would fail as well, such
as X or the kernel. I'll try memtest over the weekend, but I seriously doubt
that is where the problem lies.

[Comment 6 Thomas Tongue 2002-02-04 15:33:05 UTC]

>humiliation<

This WAS a memory problem. Arg! I tested it 3 weeks ago when I added the RAM and
it was fine. Sheesh. Anyway, I've installed new RAM and now it builds just fine.
Sorry to wast your time on this. Thanks!