Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

[Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 09:16:37PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote
> On Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:37:40 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +0000, Peter Humphr
> > The real question is what else, besides clang and its libraries,
> are you building that requires clang?
> 
> Firefox.

  Upstream in this same thread...

On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 08:04:06AM +0000, Wols Lists wrote
> On 03/03/2024 23:13, Carsten Hauck wrote:
> >
> > Some time ago on one of my machines Thunderbird and Firefox stopped to
> > compile with USE="clang". As they can be build with gcc I never digged
> > too deep into that problem but maybe it's worth a shot.
>
> For anyone else who hits this sort of problem, I did an
>
> USE=-clang emerge --update @world
>
> (firefox and thunderbird were the only programs I thought this would
> touch), and it worked.
>
> There were a couple of other programs that I guess got pulled in by the
> changed use, but they've upgraded which is the main thing.
>
> Thank you very much

  So there are at least 2 people who've found out that Firefox can and
*MUST* be built with USE="-clang".

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