Source: thunderbird
Version: 1:128.13.0esr-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: ppc64
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi,
on ppc64, Thunderbird currently fails to build from source [1] due to an
upstream bug in the PowerPC backend in LLVM [2].
Could you override CC and CXX so Thunderbird is built with GCC instead of
Clang for the time being?
--- debian/rules.orig 2025-07-25 01:09:59.688831332 -0700
+++ debian/rules 2025-07-25 00:39:01.489229045 -0700
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
CFLAGS += -DSQLITE_BYTEORDER=1234
endif
+ifneq (,$(filter ppc64,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
+ CC := gcc
+ CXX := g++
+endif
+
# Reduce memory usage of the linker at the expense of processing time
# This should help on lower-end architectures like arm and mips, which
# spend an immense amount of time swapping.
Thanks,
Adrian
> [1]
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=thunderbird&arch=ppc64&ver=1%3A128.13.0esr-1&stamp=1753381391&raw=0
> [2] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/110753
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/110753
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--- debian/rules.orig 2025-07-25 01:09:59.688831332 -0700
+++ debian/rules 2025-07-25 00:39:01.489229045 -0700
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
CFLAGS += -DSQLITE_BYTEORDER=1234
endif
+ifneq (,$(filter ppc64,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
+ CC := gcc
+ CXX := g++
+endif
+
# Reduce memory usage of the linker at the expense of processing time
# This should help on lower-end architectures like arm and mips, which
# spend an immense amount of time swapping.
