Firefox 13

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>
>> On 2012-06-07 17:47, Warren Block wrote:
>>>
>>> Yesterday, Firefox 13 built and installed quickly.  It was just the
>>> running part that did not go so well.  Coredumps on start, it would
>>> start with add-ons disabled, but then coredump while typing a URL, or
>>> sometimes a few seconds later.  Rebuilding everything Firefox depends on
>>> did not make any difference.
>>>
>>> Firefox 12 builds and runs fine, as do Chromium and xxxterm.
>>>
>>> This is on 9-stable from yesterday, amd64.  The next step is to build
>>> with debug symbols; I was hoping the problem would have been experienced
>>> by someone else by now.  Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Which compiler did you use, clang or gcc, and if gcc, which version?
>> Regards!
>
>
> gcc46, and I do have CPUTYPE?=native in make.conf...
>
> Interesting!  Built without CPUTYPE set, Firefox seems fine.  Compiler bug?

Not really surprised about that. I have stopped tweak the CPUTYPE
several years ago when I discovered that the FreeBSD machines got very
and very stable without tweak CPUTYPE. I don't even notice any of
performance difference. Maybe I will if I look at the numbers. ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz


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