[Gnewsense-dev] Re: compiling icecat on mips

[Daniel Clark]

Zhang Le wrote:
> On 14:20 Mon 27 Apr     , Erwan Lerale wrote:
>> Graziano Sorbaioli wrote:
>>> I am trying to compile icecat on the yeeloong.
>>>
>>> I downloaded IceCat 3.0.9-g1 sources here:
>>>
>>> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.0.9-g1/icecat-3.0.9-g1.tar.bz2
>>>
>>>
>>> Giuseppe Scrivano told me a simple ./configure && make should be fine so
>>> that is what I did.
>>>
>>> The first time I received this configure error:
>>>
>>> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\
>>> configure: error: --enable-application=APP was not specified and is
>>> required
>>> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
>>>
>>>
>>> After a reboot the error was gone but I found another one:
>>>
>>>
>>> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
>>> Library requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0 gtk+-unix-print-2.0 gdk-x11-2.0
>>> glib-2.0 gobject-2.0) not met
>>>
>>> consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH enviroment variable if your
>>> libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them
>>> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe I have unmet dependencies but as you may know I can't connect with
>>> my yeeloong due to the famous wvdial bug:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00261
>>>
>>>
>>> Giuseppe told me the dependencies of the .deb package:
>>>
>>> Build-Depends: debhelper, autotools-dev, libgtk2.0-dev,
>>>                libcairo2-dev, zlib1g-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libpng12-dev,
>>>                libxft-dev, zip, libdbus-glib-1-dev, libidl-dev,
>>> python-dev,
>>>            libx11-dev, libxt-dev, libxcb1-dev
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could someone with a reliable internet connection try to compile icecat
>>> on the yeeloong and tell what he finds out?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have tried to compile it. The configure is working fine but the make
>> is failing here :
>>
>> make[7]: Entering directory
>> `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md'
>> make[8]: Entering directory
>> `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix'
>> xptcinvoke_mips.cpp
>> c++ -o xptcinvoke_mips.o -c -fvisibility=hidden -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API
>> -DOSTYPE=\"Linux2.6.27\" -DOSARCH=Linux -DEXPORT_XPTC_API -D_IMPL_NS_COM
>> -I./../.. -I./../../../../xptinfo/src  -I. -I.
>> -I../../../../../../dist/include/string
>> -I../../../../../../dist/include  
>> -I../../../../../../dist/include/xpcom
>> -I../../../../../../dist/include/nspr        -fPIC   -fno-rtti
>> -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual
>> -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align
>> -Wno-long-long -pedantic -fno-strict-aliasing -Wa,-xgot -fshort-wchar
>> -pthread -pipe  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -pipe -O2   -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include
>> ../../../../../../mozilla-config.h -Wp,-MD,.deps/xptcinvoke_mips.pp
>> xptcinvoke_mips.cpp
>> xptcinvoke_mips.cpp: In function ‘void invoke_copy_to_stack(PRUint32*,
>> PRUint32, nsXPTCVariant*)’:
>> xptcinvoke_mips.cpp:97: warning: cast from ‘PRUint32*’ to ‘PRInt64*’
>> increases required alignment of target type
>> xptcinvoke_mips.cpp:101: warning: cast from ‘PRUint32*’ to ‘PRUint64*’
>> increases required alignment of target type
>> xptcinvoke_mips.cpp:105: warning: cast from ‘PRUint32*’ to ‘double*’
>> increases required alignment of target type
>> xptcinvoke_mips.cpp: At global scope:
>> xptcinvoke_mips.cpp:117: error: expected constructor, destructor, or
>> type conversion before ‘XPTC_InvokeByIndex’
>> make[8]: *** [xptcinvoke_mips.o] Error 1
>> make[8]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix'
>> make[7]: *** [libs] Error 2
>> make[7]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md'
>> make[6]: *** [libs] Error 2
>> make[6]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src'
>> make[5]: *** [libs] Error 2
>> make[5]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1/xpcom/reflect/xptcall'
>> make[4]: *** [libs] Error 2
>> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1/xpcom/reflect'
>> make[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1/xpcom'
>> make[2]: *** [libs_tier_xpcom] Error 2
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1'
>> make[1]: *** [tier_xpcom] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/erwan/icecat-3.0.9-g1'
>> make: *** [default] Error 2
>>
>> Cheers
>> Erwan
> 
> You need this:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482759
> 
> Since gnewsense mips port use O32 ABI, only the O32 patch is enough.

When I looked at this it looked like it might make the most sense to
modify the iceweasel .deb source packages, which should be very close to
icecat and already have whatever patches are needed to compile on MIPS.

-- 
Daniel JB Clark   | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation
pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny

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