465357 - Mac static build failure with nsSuiteDirectoryProvider

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Robert Kaiser]

Mark reported the following failure in bug 464674 comment #4:

Packaging debugQA-2.0a2pre.xpi...
./
./chrome/
./chrome/debugqa.jar
./chrome.manifest
./install.rdf
Making symlinks to the original object files in the archive libraries
../profile/libsuiteprofile_s.a ../profile/migration/src/libsuitemigration_s.a
../browser/src/libsuitebrowser_s.a
ld: absolute addressing (perhaps -mdynamic-no-pic) used in
nsSuiteDirectoryProvider::QueryInterface(nsID const&, void**)from
nsSuiteDirectoryProvider.o not allowed in slidable image
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [libsuite.dylib] Error 1
make[4]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[3]: *** [libs_tier_app] Error 2
make[2]: *** [tier_app] Error 2
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make: *** [build] Error 2

This happens with --enable-static on Mac, we need to investigate that before making static builds the default for nightlies and releases.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I did a few builds with --enable-static this morning and they all passed. So I think this is WFM now.