Bug 74578 – mozilla doens't cross-build, and doesn't build for ppc

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Bug 74578 - mozilla doens't cross-build, and doesn't build for ppc

Summary:	mozilla doens't cross-build, and doesn't build for ppc

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	mozilla (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Christopher Aillon
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2002-09-26 16:35 EDT by Guy Streeter
Modified:	2016-02-09 20:32 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-03-30 15:56:00 EST
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spec file changes (3.51 KB, patch) 2002-09-26 16:36 EDT, Guy Streeter	no flags	Details \| Diff
keep configure from trying to do a cross-build (1.52 KB, patch) 2002-09-26 16:37 EDT, Guy Streeter	no flags	Details \| Diff
xtpcall support for ppc (13.01 KB, patch) 2002-09-26 16:38 EDT, Guy Streeter	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Guy Streeter 2002-09-26 16:35:38 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
mozilla needs an xptcall patch to build for ppc, and other changes to build for
ppc on a ppc64 system

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.on a ppc64 system, rpmbuild --target=ppc mozilla
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  build errors

Expected Results:  sucessful build

Additional info:

I will attach patches.

Comment 1 Guy Streeter 2002-09-26 16:36:16 EDT

Created attachment 77364 [details]
spec file changes

Comment 2 Guy Streeter 2002-09-26 16:37:30 EDT

Created attachment 77365 [details]
keep configure from trying to do a cross-build

Comment 3 Guy Streeter 2002-09-26 16:38:15 EDT

Created attachment 77366 [details]
xtpcall support for ppc

Comment 4 Christopher Blizzard 2002-09-27 13:12:35 EDT

Are you sure that the asm changes will work with all the compilers that we
support?  If so, we need to get that in upstream.

Comment 5 Guy Streeter 2002-09-27 13:36:26 EDT

I got the xptcall patch from mozilla bugzilla. As I understand it, it has been
accepted.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142594

Comment 6 Guy Streeter 2005-03-30 15:56:00 EST

This has long since been fixed

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