How to compile a port with GCC instead of clang

[Peter Harrison]

Peter Harrison
On 8 Dec 2013 23:05, <Lena at lena.kiev.ua> wrote:
>
> > From: Peter Harrison <four.harrisons at googlemail.com>
>
> > Sunday,  8 December 2013 at 12:47:06 +0100, Roland Smith said:
> > > On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 10:54:55AM +0000, Peter Harrison wrote:
> > >>
> > >> How can I compile www/chromium with GCC instead of clang?
> > >> If I compile it with clang I end up with a broken binary that won't
render
> > >> pages properly. If I compile it with gcc it works flawlessly.
> > >> But the knob to choose gcc has been removed in the recent updates.
> > >> So now I have a broken chromium. How can I compile it with gcc
instead?
> > >
> > > Add the following to your /etc/make.conf:
> > >
> > > .if ${.CURDIR:M*/www/chromium}
> > > USE_GCC?=yes
> > > .endif
> > >
> > > See /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gcc.mk for the possible values of USE_GCC.
> >
> > Thanks Roland.
> >
> > That worked, but sadly seems to have just uncovered why the gcc option
> > was removed. Built with clang my chromium still doesn't function
properly.
> > Attempting to build with gcc produces the error below.
> >
> > Anyone got any idea either how to build a functioning chromium with
clang,
> > or how to successfully build it with gcc?
> >
> > Attempting to build with gcc I get:
> >
> > [2/12492] CC obj/third_party/lzma_sdk/lzma_sdk.7zAlloc.o
> > FAILED: gcc46
>
> I use FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p4 i386.
> According to /usr/ports/UPDATING 20131008, I use
> FAVORITE_COMPILER=gcc
> in /etc/make.conf - then chromium is attempted to be built using GCC 4.7,
> but chromium build fails, though later - on some step 5xxx/12xxx.
>
> Which last version of Chromium did you build and use successfully?
>
> Fresh Chromium 31.0.1650.63 built with clang doesn't work for me
> (doesn't render www.yahoo.com and groups.yahoo.com).
> Package
>
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/All/chromium-28.0.1500.95.tbz
> installed with pkg_add (I don't use pkgng) seems to work somewhat better.
> I use Firefox, I'm trying to only test a broken website (groups.yahoo.com)
> in Chromium.

So I removed gcc46, updated my ports tree, set FAVORITE_COMPILER=gcc in
/etc/make.conf

Recompiled and voila! I have a fully working chromium.

Thanks all.

Peter.