Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 109691
Fedora Core 1 Mozilla PPC binaries were built with x86 flags
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:33 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031102 Epiphany/1.0.4 Description of problem: After installing PPC packages from Fedora in an iMac DV (I just avoided initscripts, devlabel, gpm and mkinitrd), I was wondering why everything worked fine except for mozilla/epiphany. I even rebuilt from SRPMs several 1.4.1 SRPMs releases with 100% of negative results, until I examined the mozilla spec file and found out why Fedora's mozilla RPMs for PPC are broken: # build mozilla - XCFLAGS is for NSS which can't use CFLAGS for # various reasons %ifarch ia64 OPTFLAGS=-O0 %else OPTFLAGS=-O2 %endif XCFLAGS=-g CFLAGS=-g %ifarch ia64 CXXFLAGS="-fno-inline -g" %else CXXFLAGS=-g %endif Guess the PPC mozilla packages were built just doing rpmbuild --rebuild. So, <http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/ppc/Fedora/RPMS/> has mozilla _PPC_ binary pacakges built with OPTFLAGS=-O2 and CXXFLAGS=-g (!?!). After removing these lines from the spec file, that really should consider other architectures, and doing rpmbuild -bb, I could successfully build mozilla packages that actually _work_ on PPC. I reported this two weeks ago in fedora-test-list. Gues I should have done it here in the first place. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.4.1-17 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install mozilla pakages for PPC on a PPC computer 2. run mozilla, it will surely crash Actual Results: Crash Expected Results: Run mozilla Additional info:
I made the minor spec change: %ifarch ia64 ppc Probably needs to have sparc there too Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/2003110 See following post for more details: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-November/msg00200.html Which links to following gcc bugzilla entry: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11376
Just to reclarify mozilla on ppc will fail with -O2 trivial fix as ia64 needed due to optimisation fun and games (as linked to above)
Merged into the head. This will be part of the next build.