Hi,

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:51:56PM +0200, Amadeus Stevenson wrote:

> My only gripe is: Why is a binary package for mozilla and firefox
> (/packages/pkgsrc-2005Q4/NetBSD-3.0/sparc64/www/) available for
> sparc64 when they crash frequently whereas none are available for
> sparc? Is it because they don't even compile? I thought switching to
> 32bit userland would solve the problems firefox was having with
> sparc64...
> 
> >From http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/2006/04/01/0001.html and
> subsequently ftp://asim.lip6.fr/outgoing/packages/sparc/3.0/20060331.1952/www/firefox/.broken.html
> it appears the bulk build failed at:
> 
> nsTextFormatter.cpp:1076: internal compiler error: in convert_move, at expr.c:
>    565
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See  for instructions.
> make[3]: *** [nsTextFormatter.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg/www/firefox/work/mozilla/xpcom/ds'
> make[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg/www/firefox/work/mozilla/xpcom'
> make[1]: *** [tier_2] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/pkg/www/firefox/work/mozilla'
> gmake: *** [default] Error 2
> *** Error code 2
> 
> I'm guessing I could find the same problem if I try through pkgsrc?
> 

Last time I tried on netbsd/sparc 32 bit I got this exact problem.  It
was a few months ago on current.  I started poking and basically every
time I commented a line the next line seg faulted.

cheers

bruce
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