Bug 99976 – gecko-sdk-1.7.8 will not compile with gcc-3.3.5

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rick Harris 2005-07-22 20:41:34 UTC]

Gecko-sdk-1.7.8 fails to build with latest stable GCC (gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1), 
error follows:    
    
gmake[3]: Entering directory    
`/var/tmp/portage/gecko-sdk-1.7.8/work/mozilla/xpcom/build'    
rm -f libxpcom.so    
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++  -fno-rtti -fno-handle-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion    
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth    
-Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -march=athlon-xp    
-pipe -Wno-deprecated -Wno-return-type -w -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe     
-DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -ffunction-sections -O2 -fPIC -shared -Wl,-h    
-Wl,libxpcom.so -o libxpcom.so  nsXPComInit.o nsStringAPI.o          
-Wl,--whole-archive ../../dist/lib/libxpcomds_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomio_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomcomponents_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomthreads_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomproxy_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcombase_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxptcall.a ../../dist/lib/libxptinfo.a ../../dist/lib/libxpt.a ../../dist/lib/libxptcmd.a ../../dist/lib/libstring_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomglue_s.a     
-Wl,--no-whole-archive     
-L/var/tmp/portage/gecko-sdk-1.7.8/work/mozilla/dist/lib -lplds4 -lplc4    
-lnspr4 -lpthread -ldl  -ldl -lm    
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program collect2)    
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See <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.    
gmake[3]: *** [libxpcom.so] Error 1    
gmake[3]: Leaving directory    
`/var/tmp/portage/gecko-sdk-1.7.8/work/mozilla/xpcom/build'    
gmake[2]: *** [libs] Error 2    
gmake[2]: Leaving directory    
`/var/tmp/portage/gecko-sdk-1.7.8/work/mozilla/xpcom'    
gmake[1]: *** [tier_2] Error 2    
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gecko-sdk-1.7.8/work/mozilla'    
make: *** [default] Error 2    
    
    
Solution:    
Stop ebuild from applying mozilla-1.7.6-gcc4.patch when gcc4 is not being    
used. 
It may still work not applying the patch at all even when using gcc4 (as was 
the case with media-video/transcode recently), untested though.

[Comment 1 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2005-09-09 16:14:03 UTC]

Does this break the regular Mozilla build too?  It's the exact same ebuild (with
a modified install section) and they're not making the patch conditional.  Is
there a bug open on Mozilla if it does break?

[Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-09-09 17:46:42 UTC]

I thought I had commented on this awhile ago.  Does this always fail in the same
place?  What is the output of `emerge info'?  It doesn't seem to be a widespread
problem, since I haven't seen many reports concerning this.

[Comment 3 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2005-09-29 00:14:02 UTC]

Please reopen if you're still having a problem with gecko-sdk 1.7.12.