1178979 - Cannot Compile as PIE on FreeBSD

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Shawn Webb]

Attachment: Log of build failure at point of failure.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.130 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Edited the www/firefox port in the FreeBSD ports tree to also pass in --enable-pie to the configure script.


Actual results:

Firefox failed to compile as a Position-Independent Executable (PIE) and failed to install.


Expected results:

Firefox should have been able to be compiled as a PIE and install successfully.

Comment 1

[Shawn Webb]

Attachment: 2015-06-30-firefox-Makefile.patch

Patch to www/firefox/Makefile in FreeBSD's ports tree to enable PIE

Comment 2

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Jan, is this something you can take a look at?

Comment 3

[Jan Beich]

I can't reproduce and, IIRC, couldn't at the time it was posted on freebsd-gecko@ maillist. Without a stacktrace this is not very useful. Firefox just happens to crash during packaging the most if there's something wrong with the build.

FreeBSD binary packages currently don't provide debug symbols at all, so this means rebuilding firefox *and* every shared library it depends with -g, base libraries included. For ports it'd be WITH_DEBUG=1 (also turns off any -O[123] level) or CFLAGS+=-g + STRIP='' + STRIP_CMD=true; for base just DEBUG_FLAGS=-g.

Besides, downstream may have its own bugs, so testing vanilla build is preferred:

  $ pkg install -y mercurial
  $ hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/

  $ cd mozilla-central
  $ rm -f .mozconfig # idiomatic
  $ echo 'ac_add_options --enable-pie' >.mozconfig

  $ ./mach bootstrap
  $ ./mach build
  $ ./mach run

Comment 4

[Michelle Funches - QA]

Due to comment/response, we will be changing the bug from Unconfirmed to New so that items with a component no longer display unconfirmed

Comment 5

[Jan Beich]

Well, I've just enabled PIE by default in ports: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/410748