Re: pkg/53436: firefox 61.0.1 build failure on NetBSD/i386 8.0_RC2

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53436; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/53436: firefox 61.0.1 build failure on NetBSD/i386 8.0_RC2
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 16:09:46 +0100

 * On 2018-07-09 at 16:05 BST, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
 
 > I wonder if there is an i386 specific -fstack-protector problem,
 > especially in the following function in gcc-6.4.0/gcc/config/i386/i386.c:
 > 
 > ---
 > /* For 32-bit code we can save PIC register setup by using
 >    __stack_chk_fail_local hidden function instead of calling
 >    __stack_chk_fail directly.  64-bit code doesn't need to setup any PIC
 >    register, so it is better to call __stack_chk_fail directly.  */
 > 
 > static tree ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
 > ix86_stack_protect_fail (void)
 > {
 >   return TARGET_64BIT
 >          ? default_external_stack_protect_fail ()
 >          : default_hidden_stack_protect_fail ();
 > }
 
 We used to see something similar on SunOS where i386 had stack
 protector issues whereas x86_64 was fine, until I applied this patch:
 
   https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commit/10aee3e4aef98c2bd8512ef4cb4278d0c7102d13#diff-88dca29c55d4e66af367aeefadf55a7a
 
 Something similar might help you too.
 
 -- 
 Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com