Re: [gNewSense-users] where can i find information / pathces to build icecat on lemote system ?!

[matti christensen]

first of all - i am trying my best to sound polite and friendly, but  
as i'm not native english, it is not so easy = sorry

following lines found from an email referenced on the email you sent a  
link to me, made me think that the patch was targeted to n32 systems;

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> When building GNU IceCat from source on MIPS, I encounter an error that have
> been reported on Mozilla [1] and fixed in current (4.0 beta 9) version of
> Firefox. The problem comes from binutils though and seems to occur  
> only on MIPS
> with ABI n32 [2].
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528687
> [2] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11956
>
> I attach to this email the patch used to fix this problem. Basically, it
> disables TLS support for MIPS in "configure.in".
> The following commands have to be run after the patch has been applied:
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i'm rather frustrated on this browser issue on lemote loongson 2f  
hardware as i've been trying to build different browsers for months  
now = i'm not a developer but been building various software on Linux  
a long time ( from 1.2.13 kernel days ). now it appears that i can not  
find the correct pieces of information and possible patches...


/mc

keep-IT-simple


Quoting Christophe Jarry <address@hidden>:

> > --- the patch below is targeted to n32 ABI systems and mine is built
> > on debian o32
>
> How do you know that the patch is for n32 ABI systems only?
>
> > --- do you mean that only this patch is needed on gnewsense to build
> > icecat-4.n
>
> This patch was needed to build IceCat 3.6.14 for gNewSense on  
> Yeeloong. It has
> been integrated into upstream code (Firefox) since version 4.0.
>
> But if you try to build Icecat on something Yeeloong with gNewSense  
> metad, you
> will end up with this error message:
>
>     ./assembler/jit/ExecutableAllocator.h:395:6: error: #error "The  
> cacheFlush
>     support is missing on this platform."
>
> (directory "assembler" is in icecat-4.$SUBVERS/js/src).
> See the bug report at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638056.
>
> Christophe
>
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