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Simon Strandman posted <436F70C0.1040303@×××××.com>, excerpted below, on |
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Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:20:32 +0100: |
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> The mozconfig eclass strips flags down to -O1 on amd64 with the |
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> explanation "more than -O1 causes segfaults on 64-bit (bug 33767)". That |
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> bug is two years old and we have a much improved amd64 toolchain since. |
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> I've been compiling firefox and and mozilla with -O2 and -Os for quite |
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> some time and never had any problems at all. And this is also what |
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> binary distros does. I opened a bug about it but nobody responded: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86571 |
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> So please test compiling firefox and other mozilla apps with -O2 and |
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> respond to that bug so this can be fixed! |
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For something of this nature (definitely 64-bit/amd64 related, and where |
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the amd64 arch testers (ATs) can be put to work confirming the results, |
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especially since the package owners may not be able to test...), it |
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generally works much better to either assign it to amd64@, or assign it to |
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the package owner (as you did) but CC amd64@ (as you did /not/). |
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Apparently, many of the herds, and I'd guess mozilla is one of them, are |
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really stretched far too thin, and for something like this that's going to |
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require a lot of testing they don't have the direct ability to do, and |
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where it's working as is, what resources there are will likely get |
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prioritized to security bugs and the like, since they can't do much with |
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this directly anyway. Get amd64@ in the CC (or assign it to them |
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originally if appropriate, as I think it could have been here), and it's |
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likely to get action rather sooner than it might otherwise. |
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(Me... I find konqueror, which I have on my system anyway since KDE's my |
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default desktop, to be quite sufficient. Merging Firefox/Mozilla would |
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just mean one more package to continually compile from source to keep |
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updated -- and a security critical package at that.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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