1206484 - Firefox for Android build error: js/src/frontend/Parser.cpp:6834: error: undefined reference to 'js::frontend::TokenStream::Operand'

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: Android Studio and Gradle Integration, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Attachment: tail of build log

I've been trying to build Firefox for Android for the first time in several months, but encountered several build errors. To cut a long story short in the process of working through a string of build errors I ended up uninstalling macports, installing homebrew, and generally switching my system over to the setup that is now recommended under:

  https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android
  https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/Detailed_build_instructions

Specifically, I'm now using |./mach bootstrap| and the toolchains that that installs. The latest fun errors are a linker error linking libxul.so, and some weird error claiming a references to undefined variables in js/src/frontend/Parser.cpp at a line where there is no reference to those variables:

 6:44.24 /usr/local/Cellar/android-ndk/r8e/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/prebuilt/darwin-x86_64/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.7/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: error: ../../js/src/libjs_static.a(Parser.o): requires unsupported dynamic reloc R_ARM_REL32; recompile with -fPIC
 6:44.24 /usr/local/Cellar/android-ndk/r8e/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/prebuilt/darwin-x86_64/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.7/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: error: ../../js/src/libjs_static.a(Parser.o): requires unsupported dynamic reloc R_ARM_REL32; recompile with -fPIC
 6:44.24 /usr/local/Cellar/android-ndk/r8e/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/prebuilt/darwin-x86_64/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-androideabi/4.7/../../../../arm-linux-androideabi/bin/ld: error: read-only segment has dynamic relocations
 6:44.24 /Users/jw/moz/trees/f/js/src/frontend/Parser.cpp:6834: error: undefined reference to 'js::frontend::TokenStream::Operand'
 6:44.24 /Users/jw/moz/trees/f/js/src/frontend/Parser.cpp:6834: error: undefined reference to 'js::frontend::TokenStream::None'
 6:44.24 /Users/jw/moz/trees/f/js/src/frontend/Parser.cpp:6834: error: undefined reference to 'js::frontend::TokenStream::Operand'
 6:44.24 /Users/jw/moz/trees/f/js/src/frontend/Parser.cpp:6834: error: undefined reference to 'js::frontend::TokenStream::None'

The nearest references to "Operand" are on lines 6708 and 7104. The error is blamed on the closing brace of the function |Parser<ParseHandler>::statement(YieldHandling yieldHandling, bool canHaveDirectives)|.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

For anyone trying to repro this by setting up a build environment on a fresh OS install, also note that you're going to bump into bug 1205405.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

I should also mention that the Parser.cpp errors occur even with changesets going back a few weeks, with various -j values including 1, and both with and without --disable-unified-compilation.

Comment 3

[sgiles]

I get this only when I turn on `--disable-optimize`