Re: building firefox on i386

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

On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 00:55:30 +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Building firefox 90 on i386 (well, in an i386 pkg_comp chroot on amd64),
> configure complains i486--netbsdelf makes no sense to rustc.
> 
> The patch below works arouund the problem (expected platform string
> found from the rustc executable by the courtesy of string(1)). Is that
> reasonable to commit?
> 
> --- www/firefox/mozilla-common.mk.orig
> +++ www/firefox/mozilla-common.mk
> @@ -39,4 +39,7 @@
>  
>  # For rustc/cargo detection
> +.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "i386" && ${OPSYS} == "NetBSD"
> +MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM=i586-unknown-netbsd
> +.endif
>  CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --target=${MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM}
>  CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --host=${MACHINE_GNU_PLATFORM}

I committed a similar patch to lang/mozjs78 a couple of months ago for
the same reason.

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/lang/mozjs78/Makefile?rev=1.21&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN

Regards,

Dave