iceweasel backport and elf-hack

[Ronny Standtke]

Hi all

I am trying to backport iceweasel 6.0 to squeeze but this fails with the
following error message:

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<snip>
g++ -fno-rtti -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth
-Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align
-Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-variadic-macros -Werror=return-type
-Wno-long-long -g -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe
-fexceptions  -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -g -Os -freorder-blocks
-fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -shared -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,-h,test.so -o test.so
test.o
===
=== If you get failures below, please file a bug describing the error
=== and your environment (compiler and linker versions), and use
=== --disable-elf-hack until this is fixed.
===
/mnt/sda8/backports/squeeze/src/iceweasel-6.0/build-iceweasel/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack -b test.so
test.so: terminate called after throwing an instance of
'std::runtime_error'
  what():  Error opening file
make[7]: *** [test.so] Aborted
make[7]: *** Deleting file `test.so'
make[7]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/sda8/backports/squeeze/src/iceweasel-6.0/build-iceweasel/build/unix/elfhack'
make[6]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/sda8/backports/squeeze/src/iceweasel-6.0/build-iceweasel/build/unix'
make[5]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/sda8/backports/squeeze/src/iceweasel-6.0/build-iceweasel/build'
make[4]: *** [libs_tier_base] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/sda8/backports/squeeze/src/iceweasel-6.0/build-iceweasel'
make[3]: *** [tier_base] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/sda8/backports/squeeze/src/iceweasel-6.0/build-iceweasel'
make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/sda8/backports/squeeze/src/iceweasel-6.0/build-iceweasel'
dh_auto_build: make -j1 returned exit code 2
make[1]: *** [stamps/build-iceweasel] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/sda8/backports/squeeze/src/iceweasel-6.0'
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1325:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc -nc failed
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Is this a known problem? Is there an easy workaround/fix?

Thank you very much!

Ronny

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