Mozilla 1.4 RC2 update - new compiler for linux builds

Asa Dotzler

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Jun 11, 2003, 10:25:58 PM6/11/03

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We're testing 1.4 nightly Linux builds compiled with a 3.2.3 version of
GCC and looking for people to help us bang on these builds and see if
everything's working as it's supposed to. These new Linux builds can be
found at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.4-gcc323/

If you find something that's not working in these builds that is working
in the other 1.4 branch nightly builds
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.4/ (or RC1) please
let us know.

Thanks.

--Asa

Peter Weilbacher

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Jun 13, 2003, 5:22:24 AM6/13/03

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Asa Dotzler wrote:
> We're testing 1.4 nightly Linux builds compiled with a 3.2.3 version of
> GCC and looking for people to help us bang on these builds and see if
> everything's working as it's supposed to. These new Linux builds can be
> found at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.4-gcc323/

Hmm, you also need to have that gcc version (or its libraries)
installed, right? I downloaded mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz
dated 11Jun2003 18:14 from the latest-1.4-gcc323 dir just now, and
already the installer says

./mozilla-installer-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The mozilla binary in the xpi (which I unpacked manually) has similar
problems, ldd says
libstdc++.so.5 => not found
libgcc_s.so.1 => not found

This is with Red Hat 7.3 with the standard gcc-2.96-113 installed.
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Cheers!
Peter.

Geoff Leach

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Jun 13, 2003, 11:05:00 AM6/13/03

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I've been using home builds of the trunk 1.5a and previously 1.4{a,b}.
RH9(up2date), gcc3.2.2 (not 3.2.3 though). Works for me. But I think you
were looking for problem reports rather than happies.

I seem to remember reading somewere, a bit back a gcc2.9.x vs gcc3.x
debate with a decision to stick with gcc2.9.x (2.9.x?) for 1.4. Memory
fail? Change of Heart?

There was this Java plugin issue which was a real problem but that's
fixed a while.

Michael Lefevre

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Jun 13, 2003, 11:36:07 AM6/13/03

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In article <bccoq8$sg...@ripley.netscape.com>, Geoff Leach wrote:
>
>
> I've been using home builds of the trunk 1.5a and previously 1.4{a,b}.
> RH9(up2date), gcc3.2.2 (not 3.2.3 though). Works for me. But I think you
> were looking for problem reports rather than happies.
>
> I seem to remember reading somewere, a bit back a gcc2.9.x vs gcc3.x
> debate with a decision to stick with gcc2.9.x (2.9.x?) for 1.4. Memory
> fail? Change of Heart?

change of heart, prompted by a legal issue.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204236 has details.

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Michael

L. David Baron

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Jun 13, 2003, 8:51:28 PM6/13/03

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On Saturday 2003-06-14 12:23 +1200, Lennier wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:22:24 +0100, Peter Weilbacher wrote:
>
> > This is with Red Hat 7.3 with the standard gcc-2.96-113 installed.
>

> Well you're gonna haveta upgrade to gcc 3.2.3 then - won't ya. ;o)

No, please don't. Attempts are being made to make these builds work on
as many systems as possible, and it will be helpful to have testers with
different systems.

-David

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Boris Zbarsky

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Jun 14, 2003, 12:03:41 AM6/14/03

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Lennier wrote:

> Well you're gonna haveta upgrade to gcc 3.2.3 then - won't ya. ;o)

Mozilla should continue to be buildable with gcc 2.9x versions. In
fact, it should continue to be buildable with egcs (as it is now, more
or less).

Just because mozilla.org is switching compilers does not mean everyone
wants to or should.

-Boris

Michael Lefevre

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Jun 14, 2003, 9:34:14 AM6/14/03

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In article <bcc4kb$kr...@ripley.netscape.com>, Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> Asa Dotzler wrote:
>> We're testing 1.4 nightly Linux builds compiled with a 3.2.3 version of
>> GCC and looking for people to help us bang on these builds and see if
>> everything's working as it's supposed to. These new Linux builds can be
>> found at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.4-gcc323/
>
> Hmm, you also need to have that gcc version (or its libraries)
> installed, right? I downloaded mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz
> dated 11Jun2003 18:14 from the latest-1.4-gcc323 dir just now, and
> already the installer says

for these RC builds, you do need the libraries yes. that shouldn't be the
case for the actual release though (which will be statically linked
instead of dynamically linked).

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Michael

Peter Weilbacher

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Jun 18, 2003, 4:38:14 AM6/18/03

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OK, the RC2 release built with gcc-3.2.3 now seems to have linked them
statically and I can run that one here nicely!
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Peter.

Boris Zbarsky

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Nov 21, 2003, 12:03:00 PM11/21/03

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Lennier wrote:

> Well you're gonna haveta upgrade to gcc 3.2.3 then - won't ya. ;o)

There are some perfectly good reasons to NOT do that, you know....

-Boris