[oe] FireFox on PowerPC

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 07:04 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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.

So, funny thing.  Locally on an older snapshot of OE, 3.6.0 built, for
e500v2 machines, unpatched.  I'll try more combinations (doing
MACHINE=calamari on current now) as time and CPU cycles permit.

> 
> Thanks
> 


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