port www/libxul broken on sparc64, but builds even on ia64

[Anton Shterenlikht]

Port www/libxul is marked as broken on sparc64.
HOwever, it builds even on ia64!
Could anybody comment on why this port is broken for sparc64?

many thanks
anton

[Marcel Moolenaar]

Post by Anton Shterenlikht
Port www/libxul is marked as broken on sparc64.
HOwever, it builds even on ia64!
Could anybody comment on why this port is broken for sparc64?

Anton,

Can you remove the marker from the Makefile and just build it.
Let us know how it fails if it fails.

Remember that most ports committers don't have access to non
PC hardware (or don't have easy access to it), so they do
things blind. Once a port fails to build on an architecture
and no one helps out to fix it, they can only mark the port
as broken.

FYI,

[Andreas Tobler]

Post by Marcel Moolenaar

Post by Anton Shterenlikht
Port www/libxul is marked as broken on sparc64.
HOwever, it builds even on ia64!
Could anybody comment on why this port is broken for sparc64?

Anton,
Can you remove the marker from the Makefile and just build it.
Let us know how it fails if it fails.
Remember that most ports committers don't have access to non
PC hardware (or don't have easy access to it), so they do
things blind. Once a port fails to build on an architecture
and no one helps out to fix it, they can only mark the port
as broken.

I think I fixed this for the upcoming libxul. See here:
https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/freebsd-gecko/wiki/TODO

If you need a backport for the current libxul, 1.9.0.15, to sparc64, let
me know. I would not be unhappy if you can wait for the new version.
But if you have a speaking reason, I might find some slots :)

Regards,
Andreas

[Anton Shterenlikht]

Post by Andreas Tobler

Post by Marcel Moolenaar

Post by Anton Shterenlikht
Port www/libxul is marked as broken on sparc64.
HOwever, it builds even on ia64!
Could anybody comment on why this port is broken for sparc64?

Anton,
Can you remove the marker from the Makefile and just build it.
Let us know how it fails if it fails.
Remember that most ports committers don't have access to non
PC hardware (or don't have easy access to it), so they do
things blind. Once a port fails to build on an architecture
and no one helps out to fix it, they can only mark the port
as broken.

https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/freebsd-gecko/wiki/TODO
If you need a backport for the current libxul, 1.9.0.15, to sparc64, let
me know. I would not be unhappy if you can wait for the new version.
But if you have a speaking reason, I might find some slots :)

excellent!

many thanks for your hard work!

[Pav Lucistnik]

Post by Anton Shterenlikht
Port www/libxul is marked as broken on sparc64.
HOwever, it builds even on ia64!
Could anybody comment on why this port is broken for sparc64?

Here is the relevant log

http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/sparc64-errorlogs/e.7.20090622032229/libxul-1.9.0.10.log.bz2

[Marius Strobl]

Post by Anton Shterenlikht
Port www/libxul is marked as broken on sparc64.
HOwever, it builds even on ia64!
Could anybody comment on why this port is broken for sparc64?

See the follwing mail for a possible fix:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2009-November/006688.html

Marius