[oe] FireFox on PowerPC

[Gary Thomas]

On 04/03/2010 07:44 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 04/03/2010 05:11 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 11:22 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> On 04/03/2010 10:40 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 09:28 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That said, this seems to be a [Make] parallelism problem, not clear
>>>>> why/how.
>>>>> If I just rerun 'bitbake firefox' which restarts the compile step,
>>>>> it will
>>>>> run to completion. I do normally use -j4, but disabling this did
>>>>> not seem
>>>>> to make any difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note: the previous version I built (3.5.2) did not exhibit this
>>>>> behaviour.
>>>>
>>>> Well that's depressing since we just added the best we can tell correct
>>>> magic to build firefox with make -jN. If you put PARALLEL_MAKE = "" in
>>>> the .bb, does it complete this time?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No change, I'm afraid.
>>
>> Interesting. From log.do_compile, was make -jN taken out? I kinda fear
>> not...
>>
>
> I see only -j1 in the logs
>

I'm not getting anywhere with this.  True, it builds, but only
after a second attempt (the first always fails as reported).

Perhaps you'd like to try?  Just build firefox (3.6.2 is what
I'm using) for a PowerPC target (I use MACHINE=efika, DISTRO="angstrom-2008.1")
You'll need the attached patches to work around some of the va_list bugs.

Thanks

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