Subject: Re: pkg/33181: www/firefox fails to build on -current/amd64
To: None <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Shin'ichiro TAYA <taya@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 04/10/2006 00:58:23
joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
>  On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:45:01PM +0000, martijnb@atlas.ipv6.stack.nl wrote:
>  >         Firefox fails to build, failing with a linker error. See 
>  > 
>  > http://bigbird.dohd.org:3021/NetBSD/pkgstat/20060325.0310/www/firefox/.broken.html
>  
>  This is a problem of the inline assembly, which depends on a text
>  relocation. This is not supported by the newer binutils anymore. The
>  problem is that I don't have enough knowledge of the amd64 calling
>  convention to fix it myself. The call has to use the correct GOT
>  addressing, when __PIC__ is defined.

Using same xpcom code as Linux using, firefox works on current amd64.
I don't known about 3.0.
Does anybody using 3.0 confirm this ?

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/pub/pkgsrc/misc/taya/firefox.tar.gz