Re: FireFox on PowerPC

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

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On 04/03/2010 07:44 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 04/03/2010 05:11 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 11:22 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> On 04/03/2010 10:40 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 09:28 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That said, this seems to be a [Make] parallelism problem, not clear
>>>>> why/how.
>>>>> If I just rerun 'bitbake firefox' which restarts the compile step,
>>>>> it will
>>>>> run to completion. I do normally use -j4, but disabling this did
>>>>> not seem
>>>>> to make any difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note: the previous version I built (3.5.2) did not exhibit this
>>>>> behaviour.
>>>>
>>>> Well that's depressing since we just added the best we can tell correct
>>>> magic to build firefox with make -jN. If you put PARALLEL_MAKE = "" in
>>>> the .bb, does it complete this time?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No change, I'm afraid.
>>
>> Interesting. From log.do_compile, was make -jN taken out? I kinda fear
>> not...
>>
>
> I see only -j1 in the logs
>

I'm not getting anywhere with this.  True, it builds, but only
after a second attempt (the first always fails as reported).

Perhaps you'd like to try?  Just build firefox (3.6.2 is what
I'm using) for a PowerPC target (I use MACHINE=efika, DISTRO="angstrom-2008.1")
You'll need the attached patches to work around some of the va_list bugs.

Thanks

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From eedcc958ad89e17d4737f3948919b549335fd20e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:00:57 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes to build on PowerPC

---
 recipes/mozilla/files/powerpc/jsautocfg.h          |    2 ++
 .../mozilla/firefox-3.6.2/powerpc_va_list.patch    |   14 ++++++++++++++
 recipes/mozilla/firefox_3.6.2.bb                   |    1 +
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 recipes/mozilla/firefox-3.6.2/powerpc_va_list.patch

diff --git a/recipes/mozilla/files/powerpc/jsautocfg.h b/recipes/mozilla/files/powerpc/jsautocfg.h
index 408a5e4..bc5da80 100644
--- a/recipes/mozilla/files/powerpc/jsautocfg.h
+++ b/recipes/mozilla/files/powerpc/jsautocfg.h
@@ -51,4 +51,6 @@
 
 #define JS_HAVE_LONG_LONG
 
+#define HAVE_VA_LIST_AS_ARRAY
+
 #endif /* js_cpucfg___ */
diff --git a/recipes/mozilla/firefox-3.6.2/powerpc_va_list.patch b/recipes/mozilla/firefox-3.6.2/powerpc_va_list.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ae56e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/mozilla/firefox-3.6.2/powerpc_va_list.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- mozilla-1.9.1.ORIG/xpcom/glue/nsTextFormatter.cpp	2009-07-30 09:30:35.000000000 -0600
++++ mozilla-1.9.1/xpcom/glue/nsTextFormatter.cpp	2010-03-24 15:48:24.000000000 -0600
+@@ -70,7 +70,10 @@
+ ** Note: on some platforms va_list is defined as an array,
+ ** and requires array notation.
+ */
+-
++#if defined(__powerpc__)
++#define HAVE_VA_LIST_AS_ARRAY
++#endif
++
+ #ifdef HAVE_VA_COPY
+ #define VARARGS_ASSIGN(foo, bar)        VA_COPY(foo,bar)
+ #elif defined(HAVE_VA_LIST_AS_ARRAY)
diff --git a/recipes/mozilla/firefox_3.6.2.bb b/recipes/mozilla/firefox_3.6.2.bb
index 1c975e0..604ab82 100644
--- a/recipes/mozilla/firefox_3.6.2.bb
+++ b/recipes/mozilla/firefox_3.6.2.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/${PV}/source/f
 	file://firefox-plugin.pc \
 	file://firefox-xpcom.pc \
 	file://nspr.pc \
+        file://powerpc_va_list.patch;patch=1 \
 "
 
 SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "a1972a2216ac7139b92b7378a328ec93"
-- 
1.6.2.5