296329 - Build instructions should document that gcc 4 is broken

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Mentovai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050601 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050601 Firefox/1.0+

Pages identified with Camino build instructions:
http://www.caminobrowser.org/development/dev_build.html
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/fizzilla/ChimChim.html

The gcc 4.0 that ships with 10.4 (Tiger) is unable to build Mozilla because
Apple stuck us with a buggy prerelease.  Unfortunately, it's the default
compiler.  Bug 280479.  To build on 10.4, users are encouraged to opt for a less
heinous compiler with "sudo gcc_select 3.3", at least until Apple ships an
updated gcc 4.0.

This should be documented in the build instructions now that we're able to build
on 10.4 (bug 292530, a number I won't soon forget).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Confirming.  Thanks for your hard work on that bug, Mark!

Samuel/Wevah, note also per bug 292530 comment 3 from Pinkerton that stuff built
with gcc 4.0 will only run on 10.3.9 and up, so it will be a long time before
gcc 4.0 will be used for Camino/Mozilla.

Who has cvs access to fix http://www.mozilla.org/ports/fizzilla/ChimChim.html ?

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Smokey, I'll make the change on cb.o and then transfer this bug to the
mozilla.org component for them to fix. Normally Mike would do this, but he's on
vacation.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This has been fixed on CaminoBrowser.org and now needs to be fixed on mozilla.org

-> Mozilla.org

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Updating URL to m.o one and CCing Mike for when he gets back.

Can someone take care of this? It's a really quick fix.

Comment 5

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Mike, can you look at this? It shouldn't be hard to fix and I don't have CVS access.

Comment 6

[Mark Mentovai]

When bug 294244 lands, this will be obsolete-ish.  That bug provides support for
building with gcc 4.0 included with Xcode 2.1.  The gcc 4.0 prerelease delivered
with Xcode 2.0 won't be supported.

Comment 7

[Mark Mentovai]

See bug 297775.

Is it worth maintaining two separate "how to build Camino" pages?  Maybe one
should just point to the other?

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Resolving as FIXED.

We made our changes on cb.o at the time and now these changes are incorrect. See
bug 297775.