On Sat, September 27, 2014 1:45 pm, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:57:10PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I'm starting a new thread because that was what should have been done >> several messages earlier. It really isn't realted to "LFS and BLFS >> Version >> 7.6 is released:. >> >> >> On 9/26/2014 8:34 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:01:15AM -0400, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: >>> >>>> On 9/25/2014 11:53 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:33:04AM -0400, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I've installed a pile of programs and am now to the point of >>>>>> installing Firefox-32.0.1. I'm getting a compile error that ends >>>>>> with this: ... >>>>>> >>>>> ... >>>>> Or, you could do a single-threaded build (again, log it) by >>>>> uncommenting the line #mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1" >>>>> >>>> >>>> That worked -- thank you very much! >>>> >>>> > > I was not paying attention earlier (too tired), and now I've been > concentrating on other system issues (trying to fix my xorg keymap for use > in xfce - cannot use the icewm workarounds I used to use, but my new > post-installation version works, although it won't install from afresh, > unbalanced XML <sigh/> - and trying to test all, or at least most, of TeX > which I am beginning to think might be a fool's errand - but then I'm > probably a fool for staying here ;-) and now we have a new thread. Anyway > - > > > You seem to be saying that running make with -j1 worked, and > therefore you cannot know where it failed. Is this i686 or x86_64 ? You > said you are using systemd, but I cannot think of anything there that > would ... Oh, are you using pulse ? That is the one thing I do not build > - worked for me when I was testing gnome a year or two > back, but when I tried before that, I was totally unable to make it work > (that was in icewm, not a desktop environment, I sort of assume > Lennart expected a lot of daemons to be running). > > >>>> If this problem occurs with all builds of Firefox, it would be good >>>> for >> the >>>> BLFS book to include a note to uncomment the offending line. >>>> >>>> >>> I think Armin said it happens in 32.0.3 - I have not attempted to >>> install that version. >> >> For me it happened with BOTH 32.0.1 and 32.0.3. >> >> > > I'm not sure how many times I have installed 32.0.1, but I am > fairly sure that I built it with -j4 on x86_64, and with -j3 on the i686 > system which only has two cores [ and then built it again on x86_64 with > -j1 to time it, after I knew it worked ]. > > > The original error on i686 was during the install (inluding DESTDIR > installs), and was a Python problem which gave a backtrace of Python > modules. > >>>> I also installed the full development environment. What do you get >>>> when >> you >>>> install that? Where can I learn more about this? >>>> >>> No idea. It does not ring any bells for me. >>> >> >> Ok. >> >> >> But *someone* with BLFS must know what this means -- otherwise he would >> not have put some verbiage about installing the full dev environment in >> the BLFS book. Who might that be? >> > > It might be a lingering reference to when xulrunner was in the > book. Back in the day, it looked as if xulrunner would be the basis for a > quicker build of both firefox and thunderbird, but in practice they were > hardly ever on the same version, and everything linked against it had to > be recompiled for each new version. At one time, some things such as > icedtea and gnash needed xulrunner to get some headers. Now, I think > NPAPI-SDK has replaced that. > > > ĸen > -- > Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. > Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > Hello Ken,
I would say that your wasting your time with the poster that posted this, as they point blankly refuse to read the information on the link that I provided. They are too caught up in their own self-importance to actually be able to read what is provided, let alone actually be capable of doing their own research. Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
