The PGO use flag does not work in current Gentoo ebuilds. I have created 2 patches which resolve this. Patch one is for the ebuild itself which corrects the pgo call and adds the 2nd patch. http://pastebin.com/CvKNnd7a Patch two fixes the missing build option in the Makefile.in 'pgo-profile-run'. http://pastebin.com/D2fTDBeM Patches are against www-client/firefox-24.2.0, have tested against version 26 also. Compiled with use flags as follows. www-client/firefox-26.0-r1::x-portage USE="alsa bindist dbus gstreamer jit libnotify minimal pgo startup-notification system-cairo system-icu system-jpeg system-sqlite -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -pulseaudio (-selinux) -wifi" Reproducible: Always The PGO script itself profileserver.py uses port 8888 which conflicts with the default port used by BTSync. BTSync must be closed before compilation.
Created attachment 369030 [details, diff] Patch for Makefile.in
Created attachment 369032 [details, diff] Patch for 24.2.0 ebuild
USE=pgo is still masked. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388585 ***
I dont understand, this is not a duplicate of the bugs mentioned. I am proposing a fix not a bug, besides most of those bugs are unrelated to the actual PGO build error that is recieved when building the current versions of firefox. Can you atleast suggest how these patches get put into firefox?
They don't, because we don't support PGO (which is the reason for the RESO/DUP status and linked bug). We are not ever going to include PGO patches in the tree for firefox et. al. until/unless this stance changes. Furthermore, user-contributed patches that do support PGO should go as attachments to the aforementioned bug, to keep them all in one place. Firefox et. al. ebuilds do have "epatch_user" support, for those that do want to try and use PGO, to make applying supporting patches easier.
check https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Building_with_Profile-Guided_Optimization the page says " You must have tests enabled (do not include --disable-tests in your build configuration). " so, you shoud enable test and pgo both, otherwise , make wooun't be able to find gpo build target
(In reply to microcai from comment #6) > check > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Building_with_Profile- > Guided_Optimization > > the page says " > You must have tests enabled (do not include --disable-tests in your build > configuration). > " > > so, you shoud enable test and pgo both, otherwise , make wooun't be able to > find gpo build target "test" USE flag isn't needed, I've compiled FF 36.0.1 only by following instructions on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7490084.html btw. performance increase is ~5% according to peacekeeper benchmark
