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From: David Rosenbaum <rosenbaumd181@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure ..
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2023 03:31:25
Message-Id: CAL+8heO+YfN+qEQ+cAidgkm1v1CabWnWjzN4vsnq74qvKqq7_A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure .. by cal
1 Thanks bud
2
3 Dave
4
5 On Sun, Jan 1, 2023, 4:22 PM cal <cal@×××××××××.technology> wrote:
6
7 > On 1/1/23 13:05, Wol wrote:
8 > > On 01/01/2023 20:08, cal wrote:
9 > >> FWIW, Thunderbird builds fine with GCC on my machine -- I'm unsure of
10 > >> your reasons for setting your Portage compiler to clang, but you may
11 > >> wish to use a package.env override to build Thunderbird with GCC as a
12 > >> workaround until the problem can be fixed upstream.
13 > >
14 > > I don't know anything about clang ... it must be the default ...
15 > >
16 > > I thought part of Firefox/Thunderbird was written in Rust, so I assumed
17 > > it was built with llvm as a matter of course.
18 > >
19 > > I'll just wait for it to sort itself out.
20 > >
21 > > Cheers,
22 > > Wol
23 > You're right, it looks like the Thunderbird ebuild has a clang USE
24 > turned on by default; I didn't realize that in my earlier reply and
25 > assumed you had overridden this yourself. Regardless, this version
26 > built correctly on my machine, so it's worthy of investigation with
27 > upstream which combinations of parameters may be triggering the crash.
28 >
29 > cal
30 >
31 >