513673 - firefox 3.5.2 fails compiling on mac os x 10.6 snow leopard because of missing ComponentDescription

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Dave Chand]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.0+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9
Build Identifier: 

I am trying to compile firefox 3.5.* branch on mac os x 10.6 snow leopard.
Inorder for the compilation to proceed as far as it had the following flags were set:
CFLAGS="-arch i386 --save-temps"
CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
LDFLAGS="-arch i386"

The compilations fails due in the libsydneyaudio section of the source due to  missing "ComponentDescription". 
Bellow is a summary of the compilation output:

/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c: In function ‘sa_stream_open’:
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:182: error: ‘ComponentDescription’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:182: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:182: error: for each function it appears in.)
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:182: error: syntax error before ‘desc’
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:183: error: ‘desc’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:189: error: ‘Component’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:189: error: syntax error before ‘comp’
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:190: error: ‘comp’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:194: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘OpenAComponent’
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c: In function ‘sa_stream_destroy’:
/Users/dave/src/mozilla-1.9.1-branch/media/libsydneyaudio/src/sydney_audio_mac.c:283: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘CloseComponent’
make[5]: *** [sydney_audio_mac.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[3]: *** [libs_tier_gecko] Error 2
make[2]: *** [tier_gecko] Error 2
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make: *** [build] Error 2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get the latest firefox 3.5 sources
2. Compile sources on mac os x 10.6 snow leopard
3.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

To the best of my knowledge Firefox 3.5.x will not be supported for building on
10.6. For building on 10.6 you will need to use
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/

Comment 2

[Josh Aas]

The correct way to do a 32-bit cross compile on 10.6 is outlined in bug 491774. I believe you can compile 3.5.2 that way.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode or a fresh profile? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 4

[Jeremy Huddleston]

This is ancient, and MacPorts has firefox 3.6.x and 4.0 building fine.