mozilla & mozilla-devel fail to build on ia64

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Wed Jun 25 11:01:24 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:49:20PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 13:21, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:41:09AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > > >    - Is ia64 support present in the mozilla tree?
> > > 
> > > Yes.  The big challenge is to port the xpcom code to FreeBSD/ia64.
> > 
> > I noticed that 1.3.1 only has ILP32 support, but 1.4 has both ILP32
> > and LP64 support. We're LP64 on FreeBSD, so it's probably better to
> > start with 1.4b. If 1.4b builds and works on ia64, we can choose to
> > backport to 1.3.1 or not.
> > I don't think we have to create FreeBSD specific code, because that
> > would imply that we're violating the ABI. There's no OS specifics
> > that we need to deal with AFAICT. But that was just after glancing.
> > I may be mistaken, but I think we can just use the *_ipf64.* files
> > for FreeBSD/ia64...
> 
> Do you need the nspr code, or can you extract it from devel/nspr?

I'll extract it... eventually. I currently use my own patches, so
nsprpub is not a concern at the moment...

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