527410 - AIX Compilation error for 3.7a1pre source js/ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/aix_closure.S Assembler: undefined symbol ".ffi_closure_helper_DARWIN"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Shailen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

While compiling Mozilla Firefox source for 3.7a1pre, getting
the below error.

/js/ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/aix_closure.S -o src/powerpc/aix_closure.o
Assembler:
/tmp/xlcS0aEvHad.s: line 71: Only .llong should be used for relocatable expressions.
/tmp/xlcS0aEvHad.s: line 111: undefined symbol ".ffi_closure_helper_DARWIN"
/tmp/xlcS0aEvHad.s: line 111: illegal expression type for branch address
gmake[5]: *** [src/powerpc/aix_closure.lo] Error 1
gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/home/firefox/mozilla-central/obj-opt/js/ctypes/libffi'
gmake[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Build Mozilla Firefox 3.7a1pre build on AIX with Gnome RPMS of 64 bit
version.
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Build fails with the above error.



Expected Results:  
No build failure

Comment 1

[Uli Link (:ul-mcamafia)]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35484

Comment 2

[Uli Link (:ul-mcamafia)]

Building libffi with GCC solves this bug.