[gentoo-user] Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

The latest stable x86 firefox fails to compile:
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/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/config/nsinstall
-D ../../dist/sdk/lib
rm -f libxul.so
/usr/bin/python2.7
/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/config/pythonpath.py
-I../../config /mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/config/expandlibs_exec.py
--uselist --  i686-pc-linux-gnu-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 -march=pentium3 -pipe
-mno-avx -fno-exceptions -fno-strict-aliasing -std=gnu++0x
-fno-tree-vrp -pthread -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -pipe
-DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -g -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fPIC -shared
-Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-h,libxul.so -o libxul.so
nsStaticXULComponents.o nsUnicharUtils.o nsBidiUtils.o nsRDFResource.o
   -lpthread -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
-Wl,-rpath-link,/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist/bin
-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/lib    ../../toolkit/xre/libxulapp_s.a
../../staticlib/components/libnecko.a
../../staticlib/components/libuconv.a
../../staticlib/components/libi18n.a
../../staticlib/components/libchardet.a
../../staticlib/components/libjar50.a
../../staticlib/components/libstartupcache.a
../../staticlib/components/libpref.a
../../staticlib/components/libhtmlpars.a
../../staticlib/components/libimglib2.a
../../staticlib/components/libgkgfx.a
../../staticlib/components/libgklayout.a
../../staticlib/components/libdocshell.a
../../staticlib/components/libembedcomponents.a
../../staticlib/components/libwebbrwsr.a
../../staticlib/components/libnsappshell.a
../../staticlib/components/libtxmgr.a
../../staticlib/components/libcommandlines.a
../../staticlib/components/libtoolkitcomps.a
../../staticlib/components/libpipboot.a
../../staticlib/components/libpipnss.a
../../staticlib/components/libappcomps.a
../../staticlib/components/libjsreflect.a
../../staticlib/components/libcomposer.a
../../staticlib/components/libjetpack_s.a
../../staticlib/components/libtelemetry.a
../../staticlib/components/libjsdebugger.a
../../staticlib/components/libstoragecomps.a
../../staticlib/components/librdf.a
../../staticlib/components/libwindowds.a
../../staticlib/components/libjsctypes.a
../../staticlib/components/libjsperf.a
../../staticlib/components/libgkplugin.a
../../staticlib/components/libunixproxy.a
../../staticlib/components/libjsd.a
../../staticlib/components/libautoconfig.a
../../staticlib/components/libauth.a
../../staticlib/components/libcookie.a
../../staticlib/components/libpermissions.a
../../staticlib/components/libuniversalchardet.a
../../staticlib/components/libfileview.a
../../staticlib/components/libplaces.a
../../staticlib/components/libtkautocomplete.a
../../staticlib/components/libsatchel.a
../../staticlib/components/libpippki.a
../../staticlib/components/libwidget_gtk2.a
../../staticlib/components/libsystem-pref.a
../../staticlib/components/libimgicon.a
../../staticlib/components/libaccessibility.a
../../staticlib/components/libremoteservice.a
../../staticlib/components/libspellchecker.a
../../staticlib/components/libzipwriter.a
../../staticlib/components/libservices-crypto.a
../../staticlib/libjsipc_s.a ../../staticlib/libdomipc_s.a
../../staticlib/libdomplugins_s.a ../../staticlib/libmozipc_s.a
../../staticlib/libmozipdlgen_s.a ../../staticlib/libipcshell_s.a
../../staticlib/libgfx2d.a ../../staticlib/libgfxipc_s.a
../../staticlib/libhal_s.a ../../staticlib/libxpcom_core.a
../../staticlib/libucvutil_s.a ../../staticlib/libchromium_s.a
../../staticlib/libmozreg_s.a ../../staticlib/libgtkxtbin.a
../../staticlib/libthebes.a ../../staticlib/libycbcr.a
../../staticlib/libangle.a  -L../../dist/bin -L../../dist/lib -ljpeg
-lpng  ../../gfx/qcms/libmozqcms.a
/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist/lib/libjs_static.a
-lffi   -Wl,-R/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lssl3 -lsmime3 -lnss3 -lnssutil3
-lcrmf -lcairo -lpixman-1 -lfreetype -lfontconfig    -L/usr/lib
-lXrender -lcairo -lX11   ../../gfx/harfbuzz/src/libmozharfbuzz.a
../../gfx/ots/src/libmozots.a  ../../dist/lib/libmozsqlite3.a  -lz
-lhunspell-1.3   -L/usr/lib -levent -L/usr/lib -lvpx -lasound
-L../../dist/bin -L../../dist/lib  -Wl,-R/usr/lib -L/usr/lib -lplds4
-lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread -ldl ../../dist/lib/libmozalloc.a -pthread
-ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 -lpthread -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt
-lglib-2.0   -L/usr/lib -lX11  -lXext  -pthread -lpangof
t2-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo
-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0   -pthread
-lgtk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lfreetype
-lfontconfig -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0
-lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgmodule-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt
-lglib-2.0   -lXt -lgthread-2.0 -lfreetype -lz -lbz2
-lstartup-notification-1   -ldl  -lrt
collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]
make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/toolkit/library'
make[4]: *** [libs_tier_platform] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu'
make[3]: *** [tier_platform] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu'
make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu'
make[1]: *** [realbuild] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release'
make: *** [build] Error 2
emake failed
 * ERROR: www-client/firefox-10.0.1 failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
 *
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line  85:  Called src_compile
 *   environment, line 6669:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           CC="$(tc-getCC)" CXX="$(tc-getCXX)" LD="$(tc-getLD)"
MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="${MAKEOPTS}" emake -f client.mk || die "emake failed";
 *
 * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info
=www-client/firefox-10.0.1',
 * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv
=www-client/firefox-10.0.1'.
 * The complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/www-client:firefox-10.0.1:20120221-062616.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/temp/environment'.
 * S: '/mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/www-client/firefox-10.0.1/work/mozilla-release'
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I found this bug in Google:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643690

Has anyone come across this problem and is there a Gentoo fix other
than waiting for a new release?
-- 
Regards,
Mick