Re: firefox build failure on NetBSD 8.0

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 at 15:15, Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> Is it one of those things that won't build on 8.0? Or is it something that
> requires compiler upgrade? And if it's the latter what's a systematic way
> to do so, so that things work out of the box for 8.x users?
>
> I am stuck due to not being able to login to gmail with present version of
> firefox I have, so trying to upgrade, hoping that it will resolve the
> issue.
>
> But am not able to build firefox on NetBSD 8.0.
>
>
> # uname -a
> NetBSD localhost 8.0 NetBSD 8.0 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Jul 17 14:59:51 UTC 2018 mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
>
> Trailing part of the error stream:
>
> stack backtrace:
>    0:        0x126e2d6b3 - <std::sys_common::backtrace::_print::DisplayBacktrace as core::fmt::Display>::fmt::h79184e6a2cc11874
>    1:        0x126e4378d - core::fmt::write::hf06bf74431f9588a
>    2:        0x126e2adc5 - std::io::Write::write_fmt::h22d436861c474099
>    3:        0x126e1b515 - std::panicking::default_hook::{{closure}}::hea2b6ef027abb4af
>    4:        0x126e1b232 - std::panicking::default_hook::h277cc06643cbe0f0
>    5:        0x126e1bbff - std::panicking::rust_panic_with_hook::hdae823f4dedf2f89
>    6:        0x126e1b792 - std::panicking::continue_panic_fmt::h1649f4cb68884a5d
>    7:        0x126e1b6ec - std::panicking::begin_panic_fmt::h797a5e5ea2193877
>    8:        0x126c69ec3 - build_script_build::build_gecko::generate_structs::ha89e600a04fe74f9
>    9:        0x126c6ba4e - build_script_build::main::h0c1487f0de24095e
>   10:        0x126c52623 - std::rt::lang_start::{{closure}}::h353633f03596b808
>   11:        0x126e1b633 - std::panicking::try::do_call::h27d4a4128277a856
>   12:        0x126e2f6fa - __rust_maybe_catch_panic
>   13:        0x126e210ff - std::rt::lang_start_internal::hf394b8fc9fb4faea
>   14:        0x126c6c452 - main
>   15:        0x126c4f88b - ___start
>
> warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...


In the past I've had occasions when I had to install the latest
available rust version in order to get the latest firefox to build -
even if it wasn't explicitly specified as a build dependency, so I'd
check if newer version were available for the OS version you are
running and build it.

Right now rust is on 1.40nb2 and firefox on 72.0.2 on my -current
systems. They all seems to be working fine.


>
> Mayuresh



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