Re: pkg/41933 (pkgsrc/firefox picks wrong ld arguments under Solaris)

[Jörn Clausen <joernc%googlemail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41933; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Clausen?= <joernc%googlemail.com@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/41933 (pkgsrc/firefox picks wrong ld arguments under Solaris)
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:56:33 +0200

 > =A0> =A0Any suggestions on this? =A0I really reallly need to get a new ve=
 rsion of fir=3D
 > =A0> =A0efox installed.
 >
 > =A0You're using gcc34 from pkgsrc and seem to be hitting toolchain bugs.
 > =A0My recommendation would be to try a newer compiler package from
 > =A0somewhere else, or perhaps sun studio 12 which I think is likely to be
 > =A0the best supported compiler, both by pkgsrc and mozilla.
 
 Sooner or later you will run into problems using Sun Studio (which is
 not pkgsrc's fault, but of ignorant developers upstream). But firefox
 built with gcc34 is not able to use the Java plugin, which reduces the
 usability of firefox (YMMV). I finally settled on using the binary
 version distributed by Mozilla.
 
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