251535 - could not compile firefox on debian woody

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Max Lindner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040630 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040630 Firefox/0.9.1

At university we use debian woody for the machines an I want to install a
firefox. Since the prebuild version doesn't start because of a segfault I tried
to compile it on myself. This works with firefox-0.8, but with the newer
Versions no chance. :(
It complains in nsTextFormatter.cpp about undefined va_copy. This could be fixed
by changing it  to __va_copy in the earlier define.
But then the errors continue on another place:

nsRDFContentSink.cpp:150: warning: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `typeof' with
   no type
nsRDFContentSink.cpp:150: typedef `typeof' is initialized (use __typeof__
   instead)
nsRDFContentSink.cpp:150: syntax error before `;' token
nsRDFContentSink.cpp:156: syntax error before `;' token
nsRDFContentSink.cpp:210: 'nsContainerTestFn' is used as a type, but is not
   defined as a type.
nsRDFContentSink.cpp:211: 'nsMakeContainerFn' is used as a type, but is not
   defined as a type.
nsRDFContentSink.cpp: In member function `virtual nsresult
   nsIRDFContainerUtils::RDFContentSinkImpl::FlushPendingNotifications()':
nsRDFContentSink.cpp:175: syntax error before `;' token
[...]
nsRDFContentSink.cpp:744: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
gmake[4]: *** [nsRDFContentSink.o] Error 1


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to compile firefox > 0.8 on debian woody
2../configure options doesnt change this...
3.

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
should compile correctly

Comment 1

[Max Lindner]

using build and patch from
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/mozilla-firefox/source
the build works with:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
make install
in the unpacked mozilla-firefox_0.9.1.orig.tar.gz dir.

Leaving as unconfirmed waiting for developer statement.

Comment 2

[Max Lindner]

correction:

it compiles, but there are several gdk-warnings and when I try to edit the
preferences of a extension, the firefox crashes.

Comment 3

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248506 ***

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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