firefox3 build fails on alpha

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:24:43 -0500, Anton Shterenlikht  
<mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:59:29AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>> Quoting Jeremy Messenger, who wrote on Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:44:11PM  
>> -0500 ..
>> > On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:23:52 -0500, Anton Shterenlikht
>> > <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > A followup. It seems xptcinvoke_freebsd_alpha.cpp is missing. It
>> > > is used in Makefile:
>> >
>> > I think most of us don't have any alpha machine. You might have to  
>> create
>> > patch for us. I think, the alpha support has been dropped so it's
>> > pointless for us to work on alpha support.
>>
>> The latest release of FreeBSD supporting the Alpha platform port is
>> RELENG_6.  Anything newer no longer supports Alpha.
>
> I'm happy with RELENG_6 on alpha.
> I'm happy to test firefox3 on alpha, but need to learn about pathes.
>
> In this particular case it seems that (at least) 2 files
> are missing from the distribution:
>
> 	xptcinvoke_freebsd_alpha.cpp
> 	xptcstubs_freebsd_alpha.cpp
>
> (curiously the corresponding *alpha.cpp files are present for osf1,  
> linux,
> openvms and openbsd).
>
> I think that whoever created the tar file simply forgot to add the  
> freebsd
> files.
>
> I did try to contact mozilla developers directly, but no reply so far.
> I understand that mozilla developers put out the tar file. Perhaps the
> port maintainers could alert the mozilla team about the missing files,
> or maybe even get these 2 files. I'd be very greatful.

Have you tried 3.0.1 yet? The Makefile.in has changed by Mozilla team:

---------------------------------------------------
######################################################################
#
# Tru64/Alpha
#
ifeq ($(OS_ARCH)$(OS_TEST),OSF1alpha)
CPPSRCS		:= xptcinvoke_osf1_alpha.cpp xptcstubs_osf1_alpha.cpp
ASFILES		:= xptcinvoke_asm_osf1_alpha.s xptcstubs_asm_osf1_alpha.s
endif
#
# Linux/Alpha
#
ifneq (,$(filter Linuxalpha FreeBSDalpha NetBSDalpha,$(OS_ARCH)$(OS_TEST)))
CPPSRCS		:= xptcinvoke_linux_alpha.cpp xptcstubs_linux_alpha.cpp
endif
---------------------------------------------------

But I have no idea if it works.

Cheers,
Mezz

> many thanks
> anton


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