problems building iceweasel 4 beta 5

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed Sep 8 19:54:06 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:24:29PM +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> At 2010-09-08 13:36, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:00:14PM +0200, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> >   
> >> Dear Debian Mozilla (& friends) package developers,
> >>
> >> I have tried building the Iceweasel 4.0 beta 5 packages, available here:
> >>
> >>     http://mozilla.debian.net/packages/
> >>
> >> on my lenny/squeeze/sid hybrid AMD64 debian box, and I would like to
> >> share my experiences with you.
> >>
> >> The exact version I was using is "4.0~b5-0.
> >>
> >> 1. I have found two build dependency problems.
> >>
> >> In both cases, the current version from testing/unstable is needed
> >> (otherwise the build fails), but this is not explicitly declared
> >> as build-dependencies:
> >>
> >>     make: 3.81-8 is required
> >>     libevent-dev: 1.4.13-stable-1 is required
> >>     
> > At what point does the build fail without these ?
> >   
> 
> See the attached "failing_build_w_old_make.log.gz"
>     for the failing build log with old (3.81-5) make.

Could you check what happens with the old make, but with the attached
patch? It seems to me this is really unrelated to make, and only worked
by chance.

Cheers,

Mike
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diff --git a/modules/libpr0n/build/Makefile.in b/modules/libpr0n/build/Makefile.in
index af7ef97..c08117e 100644
--- a/modules/libpr0n/build/Makefile.in
+++ b/modules/libpr0n/build/Makefile.in
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ export::
 	$(foreach d,$(MOZ_IMG_ENCODERS), \
 		echo "#define IMG_BUILD_ENCODER_${d}" ; ) \
 	} > nsImgBuildDefines.tmp
-	@if `cmp -s nsImgBuildDefines.h nsImgBuildDefines.tmp`; then \
+	@if cmp -s nsImgBuildDefines.h nsImgBuildDefines.tmp; then \
 		rm -f nsImgBuildDefines.tmp; \
 	else \
 		rm -f nsImgBuildDefines.h; \


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