Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 01:12:00 +0200 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Burow <nburow@purdue.edu> Cc: gecko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 53.0 Bug Report - gold linker Message-ID: <h91r-ykan-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <80A5B637-D0F7-4EFF-AB8D-CDF98860431D@purdue.edu> (Nathan Burow's message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:12:05 -0400") References: <439dfd63-0e6f-0d6f-2c17-492f5ea1d508@purdue.edu> <a87l-c5ia-wny@FreeBSD.org> <80A5B637-D0F7-4EFF-AB8D-CDF98860431D@purdue.edu>
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Nathan Burow <nburow@purdue.edu> writes: >> On Apr 13, 2017, at 00:10, Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> >> Nathan Burow <nburow@purdue.edu> writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to compile firefox 53.0 on a FreeBSD 11 VM (Virtual Box on >>> Ubuntu >>> 16.04). I've changed the linker to the gold linker, and it no longer >>> builds. >>> The error output and other requested information is below. This error >>> appears >>> identical to bug 200845 / 209952 from 2016-06-03. I attempted adding >>> "--disable-gold" to MOZ_OPTIONS in the Makefile, but this had no effect. >> >> --disable-gold tells Firefox to not opportunistically use gold linker. >> It does nothing with gold as ld in which case you may need to pass >> -fuse-ld=bfd, -fuse-ld=lld or -B/path/to/not/gold via LDFLAGS. > > should firefox be able to compile with the gold linker? I was hoping > it was supported. Using gold to link Firefox is supported but not with --enable-dtrace in .mozconfig yet. Upstream bug didn't receive any attention because it probably doesn't affect OS X. And none volunteerd with a fix.
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