Launchpad has imported 9 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675618.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-01T14:26:01+00:00 Mh+mozilla wrote: Thanks to this GNU ld bug: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13049 , building with a recent GNU ld (>= 2.21.1 are affected for sure, not sure about older ones ; 2.19 is definitely not affected) on ARM leads to a crash. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-01T14:29:37+00:00 Mh+mozilla wrote: Created attachment 549783 Work around recent ARM GNU ld bug with -fdata-sections and variables names starting with "stub" leading to crash A workaround is to avoid using variables with a name starting with "stub". js/src/jsdhash.cpp has the same variable name, but as it is compiled as C++, its name is mangled and thus doesn't start with "stub". Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-02T03:06:28+00:00 Respindola wrote: Can we use gold for this? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-02T06:03:10+00:00 Mh+mozilla wrote: (In reply to comment #2) > Can we use gold for this? It's not only a problem for us. It's a problem for those that use GNU ld on ARM. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-08T15:01:34+00:00 Benjamin Smedberg (Mozilla) [:bs] wrote: Comment on attachment 549783 Work around recent ARM GNU ld bug with -fdata-sections and variables names starting with "stub" leading to crash Since pldhash is jsdhash, can we just compile it as C++ and move on? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-08T16:04:18+00:00 Mh+mozilla wrote: Created attachment 551473 Compile pldhash as C++ > Since pldhash is jsdhash, can we just compile it as C++ and move on? We can. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-09T07:11:12+00:00 Mh+mozilla wrote: http://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/3d20269baeee Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-09T18:49:36+00:00 Ehsan-mozilla wrote: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/3d20269baeee Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2011-08-09T19:55:08+00:00 Daniel Holbert wrote: For the record, this requires a clobber to build successfully, or else you'll get errors like: > make[8]: *** No rule to make target `pldhash.c', needed by `pldhash.o'. Stop. (noting here in case any devs / projec-branch-owners encounter this error and do a bugzilla search to see if it's reported anywhere) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/comments/8 ** Changed in: firefox Status: Unknown => Fix Released ** Changed in: firefox Importance: Unknown => Medium ** Bug watch added: Sourceware.org Bugzilla #13049 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13049 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/838008 Title: firefox fails to start on armel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/838008/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs