Re: Firefox on NetBSD

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

On Sat, 18 May 2024 at 22:31:17 +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> Is anyone else having problems building latest www/firefox on NetBSD?
>
> Getting this kind of error:
>
> gmake[2]: *** 
> [/u23/pkgobj/www/firefox/work/firefox-126.0/config/recurse.mk:72: 
> _VERSION='' CARGO_PKG_VERSION=0.1.0 CARGO_PKG_VERSION_MAJOR=0 
> CARGO_PKG_VERSION_
> MINOR=1 CARGO_PKG_VERSION_PATCH=0 CARGO_PKG_VERSION_PRE='' DEBUG=false 
> HOST=x86_
> 64-unknown-netbsd 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH='/u23/pkgobj/www/firefox/work/build/release/de
> ps:/u23/pkgobj/www/firefox/work/build/release:/usr/pkg/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknow
> n-netbsd/lib' NUM_JOBS=16 OPT_LEVEL=2 
> OUT_DIR=/u23/pkgobj/www/firefox/work/build
> /x86_64-unknown-netbsd/release/build/gecko-profiler-1b4e9916b47d39e3/out 
> PROFILE
> =release RUSTC=/usr/pkg/bin/rustc 
> RUSTC_LINKER=/u23/pkgobj/www/firefox/work/fire
> fox-126.0/build/cargo-linker RUSTDOC=/usr/pkg/bin/rustdoc 
> TARGET=x86_64-unknown-
> netbsd 
> /u23/pkgobj/www/firefox/work/build/release/build/gecko-profiler-beebe90b0
> 6c32bf4/build-script-build` (signal: 4, SIGILL: illegal instruction)
>
> Tried both lang/rust-bin and building rust from source on 
> NetBSD-current
> from today.
>
> Firefox 125 built fine.

On 9.4/amd64, I encountered a totally different issue. I didn't keep a
log, so I don't have the starting point of the failure, but there are a
lot of errors like the following:

/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/build/dist/include/mozilla/dom/ChromeUtilsBinding.h:162:1: 
note: previous declaration 'bool mozilla::dom::ToJSValue(JSContext*, 
mozilla::dom::PopupBlockerState, JS::MutableHandle<JS::Value>)'
  162 | ToJSValue(JSContext* aCx, PopupBlockerState aArgument, 
JS::MutableHandle<JS::Value> aValue);
      | ^~~~~~~~~
In file included from 
/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/build/dist/include/mozilla/dom/Promise.h:24,
                 from 
/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/build/dist/include/mozilla/DetailedPromise.h:10,
                 from 
/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/build/dist/include/mozilla/dom/MediaKeys.h:12,
                 from 
/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/build/dist/include/mozilla/CDMProxy.h:15,
                 from 
/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/firefox-126.0/dom/media/MediaDecoder.h:23,
                 from 
/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/firefox-126.0/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.h:11,
                 from 
/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/firefox-126.0/dom/media/mediasink/DecodedStream.cpp:12,
                 from Unified_cpp_dom_media_mediasink0.cpp:29:
/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/build/dist/include/mozilla/dom/ToJSValue.h:337:20: 
error: conflicting declaration of C function 'bool 
mozilla::dom::ToJSValue(JSContext*, mozilla::ErrorResult&&, 
JS::MutableHandle<JS::Value>)'
  337 | [[nodiscard]] bool ToJSValue(JSContext* aCx, ErrorResult&& 
aArgument,

... and so on, until ...

gmake[1]: *** 
[/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/firefox-126.0/config/recurse.mk:34: 
compile] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
'/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/build'
gmake: *** 
[/home/disciple/pkgsrc/www/firefox/work/firefox-126.0/config/rules.mk:361: 
all] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Simply restarting the build caused it to succeed, and produced a
working package.

I haven't encountered this sort of (at least partly) non-reproducible
issue with any Firefox version in a long time (either in a sandboxed
pbulk build or simply by running "make package", both of which I do).
Not since the "reticulating splines" hangs years ago.

Regards,

Dave