[Clfs-dev] firefox-3.0.4 build fails on ps3 - multi-lib 32

[Ken Moffat]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:20:17AM -0500, Joe Ciccone wrote:
> I was just looking through the firefox source, it looks like there's a
> inconsistency in the firefox source. CBLFS has this:
> 
> make -f client.mk OS_TEST=powerpc build
> 
> make -f client.mk OS_TEST=ppc install
> 
 probably means I forgot to change the second of those when I
changed the first.
> I see the following in the configure script:
> configure:5406: OS_TEST=ppc
> configure.in:1228: OS_TEST=ppc
> 
> Then in the makefile i see this conditional:
> xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix/Makefile.in:314:ifeq
> ($(OS_ARCH)$(OS_TEST),Linuxpowerpc)
> xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix/Makefile.in:323:ifeq
> ($(OS_ARCH)$(OS_TEST),Linuxpowerpc64)
> 
> Try running this sed and then use the following two commands to build
> and install:
> 
> sed -i "/OS_TEST/s/Linuxpowerpc/Linuxppc/"
> xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix/Makefile.in &&
> make -f client.mk OS_TEST=ppc build &&
> make -f client.mk OS_TEST=ppc install
> 
> This should fix the same compilation issue on ppc64 aswell.
 Mozilla packages on ppc, particularly ppc64, have always been
"difficult".  I don't see any signs of that changing now that the
architecture is no longer mainstream.

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