521229 - [10.6] GCC 4.2 / 10.5 SDK, build errors in JavaScript (can't build 1.9.0 on 10.6)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

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Attachment: GCC 4.2 & 10.5 SDK Build log

On Mac OS 10.6 the build process errors out on jsapi.o / jsarena.o
That is when building Camino trunk (2.1a1pre) using GCC 4.2 and 10.5 SDK. The same compiled/SDK setup used to build successfully on Mac OS 10.5...

It also builds successfully using GCC 4.0 and 10.5 SDK.


Build log attached

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

Related forum thread:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=7666085#p7666085

Those build errors are the same as flagged by Al Billings in bug 477945 comment 21 and down

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

smichaud says josh has been working on this and knows more about it, so ccing him on the bug to make sure he knows about it.

Comment 3

[Josh Aas]

Cross-compiling on 10.6 to x86 is not supported on 1.9.0. IIRC 1.9.0 is at least missing the fix for bug 269538 (more discussion on bug 470071), maybe more. That's all I really know about what the problem might be.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Is there a reason why bug 269538 was never landed on 1.9.0?

Comment 5

[Josh Aas]

If you're asking me, I don't know. You should talk to the people responsible for the fix (bsmedberg or js people) if you want it. Seems unlikely we'd take a patch that big on 1.9.0 though.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

bsmedberg: can you help with comment 4, or anything else here? It's probably not critical from a being-able-to-continue-Camino-development perspective (yet), but could perhaps become more important as time goes on without a usable build process for Camino on 1.9.3 or comm-central.

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

It would require backporting the whole JS build system (separate configure) which just isn't going to happen.

Comment 8

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Also, figuring out a way to build Camino against mozilla-central is probably time better spent. A solution there would likely let you build against any of 1.9.{1,2,3}. 1.9.0 is going to become an unsupported branch in a matter of months anyway.

Comment 9

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Sounds like a WONTFIX based on comment 7, then.