301936 - deerpark alpha2 fails to build on linux ppc using Gentoo

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Timothy Waters]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: firefox deerpark alpha2 source

The build fails quickly. Probably some ppc linux specific problem. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mozilla-firefox
2. wait
3. curse loudly

Actual Results:  
Creating .deps
gmake[6]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.1_alpha2/work/mozilla/xpcom/typelib/xpt/tools'
xpt_dump.c
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -o xpt_dump.o -c
-I../../../../dist/include/system_wrappers -include
../../../../config/gcc_hidden.h -DOSTYPE=\"Linux2.6\" -DOSARCH=\"Linux\"
-DBUILD_ID=2005072411   -I../../../../dist/include/xpcom
-I../../../../dist/include -I../../../../dist/include/nspr   
-I../../../../dist/sdk/include    -fPIC  -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith
-Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -mtune=G3 -pipe -Wno-return-type -w -pthread -pipe 
-DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -ffunction-sections -O2   -include
../../../../mozilla-config.h -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -Wp,-MD,.deps/xpt_dump.pp xpt_dump.c
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc   -Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith
-Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -mtune=G3 -pipe -Wno-return-type -w -pthread -pipe 
-DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -ffunction-sections -O2 -o xpt_dump xpt_dump.o    
-L../../../../dist/bin -L../../../../dist/lib ../../../../dist/lib/libxpt.a -ldl
-lm     
../../../../dist/lib/libxpt.a(xpt_arena.o)(.text.XPT_ArenaStrDup+0x50): In
function `XPT_ArenaStrDup':
: undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
../../../../dist/lib/libxpt.a(xpt_struct.o)(.text.XPT_InterfaceDescriptorAddTypes+0xa0):
In function `XPT_InterfaceDescriptorAddTypes':
: undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
../../../../dist/lib/libxpt.a(xpt_struct.o)(.text.XPT_InterfaceDescriptorAddMethods+0xa0):
In function `XPT_InterfaceDescriptorAddMethods':
: undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
../../../../dist/lib/libxpt.a(xpt_struct.o)(.text.XPT_InterfaceDescriptorAddConsts+0xa0):
In function `XPT_InterfaceDescriptorAddConsts':
: undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
../../../../dist/lib/libxpt.a(xpt_xdr.o)(.text.GrowPool+0x9c): In function
`GrowPool':
: undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
../../../../dist/lib/libxpt.a(xpt_xdr.o)(.text.XPT_NewString+0x64): more
undefined references to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[6]: *** [xpt_dump] Error 1
gmake[6]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.1_alpha2/work/mozilla/xpcom/typelib/xpt/tools'
gmake[5]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[5]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.1_alpha2/work/mozilla/xpcom/typelib/xpt/tools'
gmake[4]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[4]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.1_alpha2/work/mozilla/xpcom/typelib/xpt'
gmake[3]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.1_alpha2/work/mozilla/xpcom/typelib'
gmake[2]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.1_alpha2/work/mozilla/xpcom'
gmake[1]: *** [tier_2] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/mozilla-firefox-1.1_alpha2/work/mozilla'
make: *** [default] Error 2

!!! ERROR: www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.1_alpha2 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 124, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.


Expected Results:  
finish building
???
PROFIT!

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050724
Firefox/1.0+

The last lines (with the !!! sigils) suggest you are actually using Gentoo's
portage (ebuild) system.

You will probably find that the Mozilla team cannot offer any help in this forum.

You might want to query the Gentoo bugzilla or forums as your problem may have
seen before, or perhaps wait a day or two in case Gentoo release a newer ebuild
for your platform.

You might to check that your portage is uptodate (emerge -pv portage) as this
has been updated recently, following any instructions concerning post-install
of portage, especially relating to etc-update; and if you have recently updated
glibc, you might want to do an 'emerge -e system' or follow your preferred
recipe for updating your toolchain.

This report is probably INVALID - relates to packaging not Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

that's right, no support here for the Ubuntu build system

Comment 3

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Please reopen this bug. It also happens on Debian with deerpark beta 1, and
there is absolutely no reason for it to be related to packaging.

Comment 4

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

... and it doesn't happen with firefox 1.0.6 with the same toolchain. (just checked)

Comment 5

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Please reopen this bug. It also happens on Debian with deerpark beta 1, and
> there is absolutely no reason for it to be related to packaging.

If you are getting a similar problem on Debian, (or Ubuntu for that
matter), it is probably a different defect, and warrants a separate
report, if you consider that there is indeed a Bug in Firefox or its
build system.

Not accepting/processing defect reports in third party systems may seem
curt (I am sure that a lot of Devs use Debian or Gentoo), but it is
sensible.

Comment 6

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> If you are getting a similar problem on Debian, (or Ubuntu for that
> matter), it is probably a different defect

I don't get a "similar problem". I get the *exact same one*.

Comment 7

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

It might be a toolchain problem, though I don't understand why it only happens
on ppc...

I worked around the issue by setting VISIBILITY_FLAGS to nothing in
xpcom/typelib/xpt/src/Makefile.in, thus removing the include of the
system_wrappers and the gcc_hidden.h file. It seems there is an issue with
visibility stuff on ppc...

Comment 8

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

After some investigation, it appears that this bug is due to gcc bug
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20297 and addressed in mozilla bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307168

Comment 9

[Ben Fowler]

See 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-347250-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html#2599109

I have not emerged Firefox on linuxc PPC for some months. Thank you for the
info about gcc.

Comment 10

[Heinrich Witt]

I have this problem with SuSE 10 (gcc 4.0.2).
See this: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=314642

Comment 11

[sam tygier]

this seems the same

i cant build from source on powerpc. using a clean ubuntu 5.10 (breezy) with
neccisary dev packages installed.

i have tried building the firefox 1.5 b2 source, and then today 20051017 updated
to the cvs version and tried again.

on running "make -f client.mk build" i get

c++  -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
-Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-no n-virtual-dtor
-Wno-long-long -pedantic -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O
-fPIC -shared -Wl,-h -Wl,libmozz.so -o libmozz .so  adler32.o compress.o crc32.o
deflate.o gzio.o infback.o inffast.o inflate.o inftrees.o trees.o uncompr.o
zutil.o        -ldl -lm    
deflate.o: In function `MOZ_Z_deflateSetDictionary':
deflate.c:(.text+0x3f8): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o: In function `flush_pending':
deflate.c:(.text+0x8a0): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o: In function `MOZ_Z_deflate':
deflate.c:(.text+0x12b8): undefined reference to `memset@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o: In function `MOZ_Z_deflateCopy':
deflate.c:(.text+0x15ac): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.c:(.text+0x15e4): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.c:(.text+0x16a8): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.c:(.text+0x16bc): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.c:(.text+0x16d0): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o:deflate.c:(.text+0x16e0): more undefined references to
`memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0' follow
deflate.o: In function `lm_init':
deflate.c:(.text+0x18a8): undefined reference to `memset@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o: In function `fill_window':
deflate.c:(.text+0x1ce4): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
gzio.o: In function `MOZ_Z_gzread':
gzio.c:(.text+0x9b4): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
gzio.o: In function `MOZ_Z_gzseek':
gzio.c:(.text+0x1254): undefined reference to `memset@@GLIBC_2.0'
infback.o: In function `MOZ_Z_inflateBack':
infback.c:(.text+0x484): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.o: In function `updatewindow':
inflate.c:(.text+0x378): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.c:(.text+0x3bc): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.c:(.text+0x3d8): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.o: In function `MOZ_Z_inflate':
inflate.c:(.text+0xa10): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.o:inflate.c:(.text+0xed0): more undefined references to
`memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libmozz.so] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mozilla/firefox-build/modules/zlib/src'
make[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mozilla/firefox-build/modules/zlib'
make[2]: *** [tier_1] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mozilla/firefox-build'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/mozilla/firefox-build'
make: *** [build] Error 2


my uname -a
Linux titania 2.6.12-9-powerpc #1 Mon Oct 10 15:26:45 BST 2005 ppc GNU/Linux

Comment 12

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #11)
> this seems the same
> 
> i cant build from source on powerpc. using a clean ubuntu 5.10 (breezy) with
> neccisary dev packages installed.

Without wishing to contradict comment 6 (which you may find helpful), can 
I suggest that try to resolve problems with a specific distro or its 
package system with the vendor. I bet that there are many Ubuntu users
who would be grateful to you. (However that toolchain problems, and
especially failures with "make -f client.mk build", need to be in
our Bugzilla).

Alternatively, your problem might be another manifestation of 
Bug 307168 "Need to clone NSPR X86-64 GCC configure fix to main 
configure (hidden visibility)" and you will probably find it helpful to 
look  there as well.

Comment 13

[Denny Schierz]

Same problem hier, with ff 1.5.0.1 under PPC Ubuntu breezy:
----------
deflate.o: In function `MOZ_Z_deflateSetDictionary':
deflate.c:(.text+0x3f8): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o: In function `flush_pending':
deflate.c:(.text+0x8a0): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o: In function `MOZ_Z_deflate':
deflate.c:(.text+0x12b8): undefined reference to `memset@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o: In function `MOZ_Z_deflateCopy':
deflate.c:(.text+0x15ac): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.c:(.text+0x15e4): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.c:(.text+0x16a8): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.c:(.text+0x16bc): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.c:(.text+0x16d0): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o:deflate.c:(.text+0x16e0): more undefined references to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0' follow
deflate.o: In function `lm_init':
deflate.c:(.text+0x18a8): undefined reference to `memset@@GLIBC_2.0'
deflate.o: In function `fill_window':
deflate.c:(.text+0x1ce4): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
gzio.o: In function `MOZ_Z_gzread':
gzio.c:(.text+0x9b4): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
gzio.o: In function `MOZ_Z_gzseek':
gzio.c:(.text+0x1254): undefined reference to `memset@@GLIBC_2.0'
infback.o: In function `MOZ_Z_inflateBack':
infback.c:(.text+0x484): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.o: In function `updatewindow':
inflate.c:(.text+0x378): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.c:(.text+0x3bc): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.c:(.text+0x3d8): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.o: In function `MOZ_Z_inflate':
inflate.c:(.text+0xa10): undefined reference to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0'
inflate.o:inflate.c:(.text+0xed0): more undefined references to `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.0' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libmozz.so] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/denny/progs/mozilla/modules/zlib/src'
make[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/denny/progs/mozilla/modules/zlib'
make[1]: *** [tier_1] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/denny/progs/mozilla'
make: *** [default] Error 2
----------

Comment 14

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Same problem hier, with ff 1.5.0.1 under PPC Ubuntu breezy:
Your comment looks like an exact duplicate of comment 11 , and
so I would assert that my comment 12 applies.

Whilst I would recommend as I have done throughout this bug,
that you install a toolchain with the features and 
implementation to correctly compile Mozilla, I do understand
that you are not responsible for Ubuntu and 'we' are responsible
for the Mozilla sources and coding standards.

If I can lay my hands on a copy of PPC Badger, I will take a look,
as at first glance it is not clear why the fix for Bug 307168 "Need 
to clone NSPR X86-64 GCC configure fix to main configure (hidden 
visibility)" has not resolved this problem. You might find it helpful
to check with the Ubuntu bug tracking system as I would expect that
other projects are affected and Ubuntu would want to fix their 
gcc package.

Comment 15

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Could you please try the build from a 2.0.x release, branch , or latest trunk and advise as to your results?

Comment 16

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Can one of the reporters advise us on whether this works now with Firefox 2 and a current version of Gentoo?

Comment 17

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

Resolving as INCOMPLETE due to lack of updates. Please address the questions in comments 15 and 16 before reopening.