Does www/chromium work?

[René Ladan]

2014-08-20 11:51 GMT+02:00 Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org>:

> Hello,
>
> Since there are no binary packages (why? I don't see where the Makefile
> prohibits it?), I'm still upgrading chromium by building it with
> portupgrade.

The package builders are catching up ...


> But, it looks like the latest version is broken - it
> segfaults in protobuffers:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x000000080e26d7d2 in __dynamic_cast () from /lib/libcxxrt.so.1
> #1  0x0000000807c873c4 in
> google::protobuf::Message::CheckTypeAndMergeFrom () from
> /usr/local/lib/libprotobuf.so.8
> #2  0x0000000002e5ddd2 in ?? ()
>
> Yeah, but building with the internal protobuf breaks the build on FreeBSD
8 and 9 due to rtld choosing the wrong libstdc++ (base instead the one in
gcc47)

Google finds a sort-of similar problem in Ubuntu:
>
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13187#c15
>
> ... which appears to be caused by using the non-bundled protobuffer
> library, the same as in FreeBSD. However, simply patching Makefile to
> have "use_system_protobuf=0" breaks the build, stating missing files.
>
> In that case you will need to add a line to not remove
third_party/protobuf to the remove_bundled_libraries.py call in Makefile.

This is chromium-36.0.1985.143_1 on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p1. Is anybody
> running chromium?
>
> Yes, but as soon as you sign in the Chromium you'll hit the above error.
See also https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192821

Rene