On Thursday, January 31, 2019 02:08:12 AM Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 10:57:00PM +0100, Vaclav Masin via blfs-support wrote: > > > > > > That is certainly my impression, but I've been wrong before on > > > errors that looks similar to that. At > > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Using_CXX_in_Mozilla_code > > > they claim gcc-6.1 is the minimum required - but that page of > > > documentation might just be out of date. > > > > > > I assume you do not have clang (along with clang++, llvm-ar, > > > llvm-nm, llvm-ranlib) available ? Old versions are probably good > > > enough (gentoo specify llvm >= 4.0, but again documentation might be > > > out of date). > > > > > > Failing that, in the short term I guess that you can probably still > > > build 60.5.0esr, albeit that the mozconfig will differ. > > > > > > ĸen > > > > > > > I do have all of that clang* and llvm* stuff available, current BLFS > > version, too: > > > > $ clang --version > > clang version 7.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_701/final) > > Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > Thread model: posix > > InstalledDir: /usr/bin > > > > $ llvm-ar --version > > LLVM (http://llvm.org/): > > LLVM version 7.0.1 > > Optimized build. > > Default target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > Host CPU: penryn > > > > I thought the rustc and LLVM packages are necessary to build newer Firefox > > versions so I've > > always tried to keep them current. Could them being available like this > > help my current > > situation somehow? > > > > Thanks. > > If you look at current BLFS, we should be exporting CC=clang, > CXX=clang++, etc. With that set of exports it should build using > clang and clang++ for the non-rust parts. > > In the previous release, using clang made it smaller. But the tests > for that were mostly during the beta, I did not attempt to roll it > out to older systems until after the release, so I did not try > building with older gcc versions. > > ĸen >
Alright, looks like once again time has come for me to get acquainted with The Book's current stable version. :) Thanks all.
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