877503 - build firefox for android with gcc 4.7

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Attachment: fix-gcc-4.7-warnings-as-errors.patch

tryserver run:
https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=9bd5f9e62f2f

Comment 2

[Trevor Saunders (:tbsaunde)]

Attachment: switch to gcc 4.7

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I fixed the last few gcc 4.7 warnings-as-errors that were breaking the Android build:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/8aeb23b70d97

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8aeb23b70d97

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Comment on attachment 756643 [details] [diff] [review]
switch to gcc 4.7

Review of attachment 756643 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Someone else needs to sign off on the releng.manifest files, I don't know anything about them.

Comment 6

[Trevor Saunders (:tbsaunde)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/10a6781c41e4

Comment 7

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/10a6781c41e4

Comment 8

[Xidorn Quan [:xidorn] UTC+10]

What's the blocker of moving to gcc 4.7 or newer version on android?

I really hope this bug could have progress, since the newer version of gcc brings some useful C++11 features which have been usable in all other platforms. Especially when considering that for Windows build, MSVC is moving to 2013, there are more features blocked by gcc for android only.

See page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code

Comment 9

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

This bug has already been fixed. Firefox for Android is currently built with gcc 4.7. This bug just didn't get closed. <:)

Bug 900797 is tracking work to support gcc 4.8.