mozilla & mozilla-devel fail to build on ia64

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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?

Joe

> 
> I'll try it out today, but have to get past the linking failures
> first (unresolved references to strlen(3) and other libc function).
> Seems we need to patch configure, like we do for alpha...
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