Bug#541797: iceape FTBFS on mips*

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 01:39:32PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> Package: iceape
> Version: 1.1.17-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the current version of iceape FTBFS on mips* with:
> c++  -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -g -O2 -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -g -fPIC -shared -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-h,libxpcom_core.so -o libxpcom_core.so  pldhash.o nsCOMPtr.o nsComponentManagerUtils.o nsDebug.o nsID.o nsIInterfaceRequestorUtils.o nsINIParser.o nsMemory.o nsTraceRefcnt.o nsWeakReference.o nsGREGlue.o nsVersionComparator.o nsTHashtable.o nsTArray.o nsGenericFactory.o nsXPComInit.o nsStringAPI.o    -Wl,--as-needed   -Wl,--whole-archive ../../dist/lib/libxpcomds_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomio_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomcomponents_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomthreads_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcomproxy_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxpcombase_s.a ../../dist/lib/libxptcall.a ../../dist/lib/libxptinfo.a ../../dist/lib/libxpt.a ../../dist/lib/libxptcmd.a ../../dist/lib/libstring_s.a  -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -L/usr/lib -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthre
> ad -ldl -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0   -ldl -lm     
> /usr/bin/ld: ../../dist/lib/libxptcmd.a(xptcinvoke_asm_mips.o): relocation R_MIPS_HI16 against `__gnu_local_gp' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> ../../dist/lib/libxptcmd.a(xptcinvoke_asm_mips.o): could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> see https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=iceape&ver=1.1.17-1&arch=mipsel&stamp=1249208323&file=log
> for the full changelog. Ccing the mips-ports.

FWIW, it's not worth spending time trying to fix this bug. 1.1.17 is not
planned to be shipped in squeeze (see #538704), and the version that can
possibly be included in squeeze (2.0) will build fine on mips (same
codebase as xulrunner 1.9.1).

Mike