350995 - Building firefox 2 beta 2 fails with link error "option -dn and -h are incompatible" on Solaris 8 (gtk2, gcc 3.4.6)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Evans]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060731 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060731 Firefox/1.5.0.5

When building firefox 2 beta 2 on Solaris 8, using gcc 3.4.6 and the Solaris linker I get this error in xpcom/stub:

c++ -I/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/gnome2/include -I/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/gnome2/include/glib-2.0 -O2 -Wno-unknown-pragmas -mcpu=ultrasparc -I/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/gnome2/include/glib-2.0 -I/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/include -I/usr/openwin/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wno-long-long -pedantic -I/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/gnome2/include -I/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/gnome2/include/glib-2.0 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -Wno-unknown-pragmas -mcpu=ultrasparc -I/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/gnome2/include/glib-2.0 -I/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/include -fshort-wchar -pthreads  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -fPIC -G -Wl,-h,libxpcom.so -o libxpcom.so  nsXPComStub.o    -L/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/gnome2/lib -L/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/lib -liconv   -L../../dist/bin -L../../dist/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,../../dist/bin -lxpcom_core -L../../dist/lib -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -L/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/gnome2/lib -L/gorbag/exta/cad/externals/SOLARIS/lib -ldl -lrt -lsocket -ldl -lm  -lnsl
ld: fatal: option -dn and -h are incompatible
ld: fatal: option -dn and -P are incompatible
ld: fatal: option -dn and -G are incompatible
ld: fatal: Flags processing errors



Reproducible: Always




My .mozconfig file contains:

ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --enable-svg
ac_add_options --enable-xft

Comment 1

[Steve Hebl]

I get a similar error when building SeaMonkey 1.1 on Solaris 8 with gcc 3.4.6.

c++ -I/usr/openwin/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wno-long-long -pedantic -fshort-wchar -pthreads  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -fPIC -G -Wl,-h,libxpcom.so -o libxpcom.so  nsXPComStub.o       -L../../dist/bin -L../../dist/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,../../dist/bin -lxpcom_core -L../../dist/lib -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -ldl -lrt -lsocket -ldl -lm    
ld: fatal: option -dn and -h are incompatible
ld: fatal: option -dn and -P are incompatible
ld: fatal: option -dn and -G are incompatible
ld: fatal: Flags processing errors
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[4]: *** [libxpcom.so] Error 1

Comment 2

[Steve Evans]

I have a workaround for the problem. The auto generated file config/autoconf.mk contains the line:

MOZ_FIX_LINK_PATHS=-Wl,-rpath-link,$(DIST)/bin

which is the location of the problem. Changing this to:

MOZ_FIX_LINK_PATHS=

allows the link to happen.

An alternative is to edit config/autoconf.mk.in before starting the build so that the line:

MOZ_FIX_LINK_PATHS=@MOZ_FIX_LINK_PATHS@

becomes:

MOZ_FIX_LINK_PATHS=

This all suggests that it is the generation of @MOZ_FIX_LINK_PATHS@ which is incorrect when building with this environment.

Comment 3

[Steve Hebl]

I've tried both workarounds that apparently worked for you, but my SeaMonkey build then fails almost immediately with another error:

/local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8/dist/bin/nsinstall -R -m 444 ./liblber50.a /local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8/dist/lib
/local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8/dist/bin/nsinstall: cannot access ./liblber50.a: No such file or directory
gmake[6]: *** [export] Error 1
gmake[6]: Leaving directory `/local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8/directory/c-sdk/ldap/libraries/liblber'
gmake[5]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8/directory/c-sdk/ldap/libraries'
gmake[4]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8/directory/c-sdk/ldap'
gmake[3]: *** [export] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8/directory/c-sdk'
gmake[2]: *** [ldap] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8'
gmake[1]: *** [default] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/local/seamonkey_1.1/mozilla/obj-sparc-sun-solaris2.8'
gmake: *** [build] Error 2

Comment 4

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Firefox 2 was many moons ago.

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE