Re: Possible fix for www/firefox on NetBSD 8

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 12:34 -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-05-25 at 17:35 +0200, is%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:53:48PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> > 
> > > It's a clang specific option. Looks like firefox68 builds partly
> > > with
> > > GCC? I see www/firefox has Makefile fragments that override PKG_CXX,
> > > which firefox68 does not have. Maybe this is the problem?
> > > (I haven't followed the Firefox upstream for some years and am
> > > not really sure the build has to be set up this way.)
> 
> Yes, firefox68 varies significantly from firefox. The 69.0 release was
> when ryoon@ changed things to require clang absolutely. When I last used
> firefox68 on NetBSD 8.1/amd64 (a couple of months ago), it built and
> ran correctly for me without any tweaks needed. I can try it again.

firefox68 from pkgsrc-current as of today (68.8.0) builds and runs fine
for me (NetBSD 8.2/amd64 with Intel graphics).

Regards,

Dave