Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:38:20PM +0100, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> > Patches were commited on 27 Aug 2019 by Robert Swindells, and we were at
> > 8.99 at this time.
> 
> Ok, the pkg builder runs with a 9.0_STABLE userland, so it should have
> those fixes. Maybe something in the firefox build system triggers a
> similar bug?

From a superficial view, I think that the more probable is that the
binaries have not been updated (or a dependency not been updated), 
because it takes ages to compile or because the new build failed, 
leaving the old version in place.

The bug was with the binutils so it is unlikely that something else can
cause similar symptoms.

Considering pkgsrc, I saw recently, for example, trying to compile
the more recent pkgsrc version of Firefox, that there was a linking
problem (an unresolved symbol) simply because on my system there was a
libepoxy, that has been suppressed now---and pkgsrc doesn't handle
this---and the package had to be suppressed by hand so that the new
packages could run.

I don't know for others, but when it comes to updating Firefox, I sigh
heavily because it never goes easily without problems... (For the first
time, I updated using half binary packages downloaded instead of 
compiling everything, because some packages would not compile on
my system for reasons that were not clear at all).

And for browsers, there is netsurf, but for now it is not in the same
league.
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