[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#826955: errors compiling chromium-browser-51.0.2704.79

[Thomas Keller]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 51.0.2704.79

  I am unable to compile chromium-browser in Debian Jessie, from debian
source package. I am using following steps to compile:

  1. apt-get source chromium
  2. install Build-Depends
  3. dpkg-buildpackage

The compilation fails with following errors:

...
lgcc_s (/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/libgcc_s.so)
/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/crtend.o
/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/crtn.o
/usr/bin/ld: total time in link: 1.990000
/usr/bin/ld: data size 107978704
[2567/19700] ACTION v8_external_snapshot: run_mksnapshot
(external)_d7a316e05e7b0a438c42a81cdde1cb2e
FAILED: cd ../../v8/tools/gyp; ../../../out/Release/mksnapshot
--random-seed 314159265 --startup_blob
../../../out/Release/snapshot_blob.bin ""
Segmentation fault
[2567/19700] CC obj/third_party/flac/src/libFLAC/libflac.lpc.o
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-inconsistent-missing-override'
[-Wunknown-warning-option]
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-shift-negative-value'; did you
mean '-Wno-shift-sign-overflow'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
2 warnings generated.
[2567/19700] CXX
obj/third_party/libphonenumber/dist/cpp/src/phonenumbers/libphonenumber_without_metadata.phonenumberutil.o

warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-inconsistent-missing-override'
[-Wunknown-warning-option]
warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-shift-negative-value'; did you
mean '-Wno-shift-sign-overflow'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
2 warnings generated.
[2567/19700] RULE Compile assembly libavcodec/x86/h264_qpel_8bit.asm
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
debian/rules:118: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_build' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/src/chromium-browser-51.0.2704.79'
debian/rules:111: recipe for target 'binary' failed
make: *** [binary] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2

can somebody please advise how to fix this ?