building seamonkey with clang

[Cary]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:16:33AM +0000, Cary wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > On Aug 21, 2013, at 13:23, Cary <cary at SDF.ORG> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 06:50:45AM +0000, Cary wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:05:42PM +0200, Dimitry Andric 
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> On Aug 20, 2013, at 00:54, Cary <cary at SDF.ORG> wrote:
> > >>>> Several attempts to build the current port of seamonkey on 9.1-release have 
> > >>>> all failed at the same point.
> > >>>> I have rebuilt clang and have no idea what else
> > >>>> can be done.
> > >>>> Here is the error:
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> Assertion failed: (isa<Argument>(Val) && "Unknown live-in to the entry block"),
> > >>>> function solveBlockValueNonLocal, file /usr/src/lib/clang/libllvmanalysis/../../
> > >>>> ../contrib/llvm/lib/Analysis/LazyValueInfo.cpp, line 605.
> > >>> 
> > >>> This is clang 3.1, so meanwhile the assert will most likely have been
> > >>> fixed.  Can you try building one of the lang/clang ports, and build the
> > >>> seamonkey port with that instead?
> > >>> 
> > >>> -Dimitry
> > >>> 
> > >>> 
> > >> At the moment I am using clang-3.3_1 to build the seamonkey port.
> > > No, I wasn't.  Sorry.  Trying again.
> > 
> > Ok, I will assume a newer clang version will have this problem fixed.
> > Please let us know whether it works for you now.
> > 
> > 
> > -Dimitry
> > 
> 
> Previous attempts to build exploded after approximately 12 hours.
> It seems to have made it a little farther this time.  :-)
> 
> Cary
> 

Very nice.  The build was successful.  The application
performs as expected.  My previous installation of
2.17 was from a package.  The new version seemed
to start faster.  

A relevant bug report was filed last month.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=180679


Cary
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