firefox3 on sparc64?

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Wed Aug 6 11:18:38 UTC 2008


I'm trying to build firefox3 from ports on FBSD Alpha.
The build fails with the error following warning:
"cast increases required alignment of target type".

Following a quick search, I believe this casting should
also fail on FBSD sparc64.

Anybody tried building firefox3 on sparc64?

anton

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The error:

gmake[5]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/www/firefox3/work/mozilla/netwerk/cookie/src'
nsCookieService.cpp
c++ -o nsCookieService.o -c  -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -D_IMPL_NS_COM -DEXPORT_XPT_API -DEXPORT_XPTC_API -D_IMPL_NS_COM_OBSOLETE -D_IMPL_NS_GFX -D_IMPL_NS_WIDGET -DIMPL_XREAPI -DIMPL_NS_NET -DIMPL_THEBES  -DOSTYPE=\"FreeBSD6\" -DOSARCH=FreeBSD -DIMPL_NS_NET  -I. -I. -I../../../dist/include/xpcom -I../../../dist/include/string -I../../../dist/include/pref -I../../../dist/include/storage -I../../../dist/include   -I../../../dist/include/necko -I/usr/local/include/nspr   -I/usr/include  -I../../../dist/sdk/include -I/usr/local/include   -fPIC  -I/usr/local/include  -I/usr/local/include -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -O -pipe -mcpu=ev6 -mieee -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-strict-aliasing -fshort-wchar -pipe  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O -Werror  -I/usr/local/include  -I/usr/local/include -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include ../../../mozilla-config.h nsCookieService.cpp
../../../dist/include/xpcom/nsTHashtable.h: In static member function `static PRBool nsTHashtable<EntryType>::s_MatchEntry(PLDHashTable*, const PLDHashEntryHdr*, const void*) [with EntryType = nsCookieEntry]':
../../../dist/include/xpcom/nsTHashtable.h:335:   instantiated from `PRBool nsTHashtable<EntryType>::Init(PRUint32) [with EntryType = nsCookieEntry]'
nsCookieService.cpp:418:   instantiated from here
../../../dist/include/xpcom/nsTHashtable.h:368: warning: cast from `const PLDHashEntryHdr*' to `const nsCookieEntry*' increases required alignment of target type
gmake[5]: *** [nsCookieService.o] Error 1

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