Nathan Burow <nbu...@purdue.edu> writes: >> On Apr 13, 2017, at 00:10, Jan Beich <jbe...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> Nathan Burow <nbu...@purdue.edu> writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm trying to compile firefox 53.0 on a FreeBSD 11 VM (Virtual Box on >>> Ubuntu >>> 16.04). I've changed the linker to the gold linker, and it no longer >>> builds. >>> The error output and other requested information is below. This error >>> appears >>> identical to bug 200845 / 209952 from 2016-06-03. I attempted adding >>> "--disable-gold" to MOZ_OPTIONS in the Makefile, but this had no effect. >> >> --disable-gold tells Firefox to not opportunistically use gold linker. >> It does nothing with gold as ld in which case you may need to pass >> -fuse-ld=bfd, -fuse-ld=lld or -B/path/to/not/gold via LDFLAGS. > > should firefox be able to compile with the gold linker? I was hoping > it was supported.
Using gold to link Firefox is supported but not with --enable-dtrace in .mozconfig yet. Upstream bug didn't receive any attention because it probably doesn't affect OS X. And none volunteerd with a fix. _______________________________________________ freebsd-gecko@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gecko To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gecko-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
