721744 - configure: error: mozilla/js/src/ctypes/libffi/configure failed for ctypes/libffi

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: config.log

On Mac OS X 10.5 with the default gcc 4.2, configure fails in js due to 719659

...
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/work/mozilla/builds/nightly/mozilla/firefox-debug/js/src/ctypes/libffi':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
configure: error: /work/mozilla/builds/nightly/mozilla/js/src/ctypes/libffi/configure failed for ctypes/libffi
configure: error: /work/mozilla/builds/nightly/mozilla/js/src/configure failed for js/src
...

Comment 1

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Fixed by backout (in Bug 721625) this may reappear though if the patch ever re-lands.


https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1a08877de7ed
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cdf89e1937eb (merge cset)

Comment 2

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Bob, is that the config.log you meant to upload?  It doesn't contain the error in your comment.  Did you upload the libffi config.log, or some other one?

The one you uploaded shows that the two arguments that were added work just fine, which is what confuses me.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Waldo, damn. I just included the overall Firefox config.log and not the js/src config. Let me rebuild with your patch and include the proper one.

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: $objdir/js/src/config.log

is this better?

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: $objdir/js/src/ctypes/libffi/config.log

Comment 6

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Comment 5 gets the right thing.  In that, I see this:

configure:3249: checking for gcc
configure:3265: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:3276: result: gcc
configure:3505: checking for C compiler version
configure:3514: gcc --version >&5
i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:3525: $? = 0
configure:3514: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-apple-darwin9
Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5493~1/src/configure --disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin9 --with-arch=apple --with-tune=generic --host=i686-apple-darwin9 --target=i686-apple-darwin9
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)

4.0.1!?!?!  Why in the world is that being found?

I hate autoconf.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Ah, Firefox's global configure

$ grep gcc-4.2 configure
    # we prefer gcc-4.2 over gcc on older darwin, so
      for ac_prog in $CC gcc-4.2 gcc

I bet js's configures don't do that. I suppose I could just set CC if that is used in js's other configures.

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

fyi, setting CC=gcc-4.2 and CXX=g++-4.2 on my Mac OS X 10.5 works.

Comment 9

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

Hmm, if js's configure isn't doing that, it totally should, I think.