Bug 593030 – www-client/firefox-49.0_beta8 fails to build on musl-amd64 with 'pthread_setname_np was not declared in this scope'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description tt_1 2016-09-07 08:30:17 UTC]

Created attachment 445130 [details]
compressed build.log

pthread_setname_np and musl don't seem to like each other?

[Comment 1 tt_1 2016-09-07 08:33:19 UTC]

Created attachment 445132 [details]
emerge.info

[Comment 2 Felix Janda 2016-09-07 11:37:28 UTC]

musl doesn't have pthread_setname_np. "np" stands for non-portable, and
indeed for different systems the number and type of arguments differs.
To make firefox happy, musl would need to implement the same variant as
glibc or Mac OSX. In

http://openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/04/27/2

the musl author says that there are no major objections to adding it.

[Comment 3 Felix Janda 2016-09-14 01:54:09 UTC]

Created attachment 445634 [details, diff]
patch for sys-libs/musl

[Comment 4 tt_1 2016-09-16 18:56:05 UTC]

The patch for musl solves the compile error of firefox. Is it a copy from glibc?

[Comment 5 Felix Janda 2016-09-17 01:08:30 UTC]

No, the function is written from scratch using the man page. An
improved version of this patch is currently being reviewed on the musl
mailing list.

[Comment 6 Nicholas Fish 2016-09-17 15:43:40 UTC]

I was also able to build and run www-client/firefox-49.0_beta10 against  musl-1.1.15 with the improved version of Felix's patch from http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2016/09/17/1 .

[Comment 7 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) 2016-09-21 14:27:07 UTC]

So if musl is what needs the patch, is there anything I should do before I commit firefox-49.0 to the tree?

[Comment 8 tt_1 2016-10-20 08:30:16 UTC]

The patch has been commited upstream at 

http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=8fb28b0b3e7a5e958fb844722a4b2ef9bc244af1

[Comment 9 tt_1 2017-01-13 21:21:35 UTC]

this has been fixed in musl-1.1.16