[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox-31.8.0 build fails on no-multilib PC

[Mick]

On Saturday 25 Jul 2015 09:29:23 Mick wrote:
> Any idea how I can fix the errors it mentions below:
>
> ===========================================================
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for gawk... gawk
> Using Python from environment variable $PYTHON
> Creating Python environment
> New python executable in /var/tmp/portage/www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-esr31/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-
> gnu/_virtualenv/bin/python2.7
> Also creating executable in /var/tmp/portage/www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-esr31/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-
> gnu/_virtualenv/bin/python
> Installing setuptools, pip...
>   Complete output from command /var/tmp/portage/www...ualenv/bin/python2.7
> -c "import sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip:
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5.4-py2.py3-none-
> any.whl/pip/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5.4-py2.py3-none-
> any.whl/pip/util.py", line 18, in <module>
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5.4-py2.py3-none-
> any.whl/pip/_vendor/distlib/version.py", line 14, in <module>
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv_support/pip-1.5.4-py2.py3-none-
> any.whl/pip/_vendor/distlib/compat.py", line 31, in <module>
> ImportError: cannot import name HTTPSHandler
> ----------------------------------------
> ...Installing setuptools, pip...done.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 2338, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 824, in main
>     symlink=options.symlink)
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 992, in create_environment
>     install_wheel(to_install, py_executable, search_dirs)
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 960, in install_wheel
>     'PIP_NO_INDEX': '1'
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/virtualenv/virtualenv.py", line 902, in call_subprocess
>     % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
> OSError: Command /var/tmp/portage/www...ualenv/bin/python2.7 -c "import
> sys, pip; sys...d\"] + sys.argv[1:]))" setuptools pip failed with error
> code 1 Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/virtualenv.py", line 473, in <module>
>     manager.ensure()
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/virtualenv.py", line 128, in ensure
>     return self.build()
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/virtualenv.py", line 371, in build
>     self.create()
>   File "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/virtualenv.py", line 147, in create
>     raise Exception('Error creating virtualenv.')
> Exception: Error creating virtualenv.
> ------ config.log ------
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> configure:1212: checking host system type
> configure:1233: checking target system type
> configure:1251: checking build system type
> configure:1326: checking for mawk
> configure:1326: checking for gawk
> *** Fix above errors and then restart with\
>                "make -f client.mk build"
> /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-esr31/client.mk:344
> : recipe for target 'configure' failed
> make[2]: *** [configure] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-esr31'
> /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-esr31/client.mk:358
> : recipe for target
> '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/Makefile' failed
> make[1]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-
> esr31/obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/Makefile] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-esr31'
> client.mk:168: recipe for target 'build' failed
> make: *** [build] Error 2
>  * ERROR: www-client/firefox-31.8.0::gentoo failed (compile phase):
>  *   emake failed
>  *
>  * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0::gentoo'`,
>  * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0::gentoo'`.
>  * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0/temp/build.log'.
>  * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0/temp/environment'.
>  * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/www-
> client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-esr31'
>  * S: '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-31.8.0/work/mozilla-esr31'
>
> >>> Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-31.8.0
>
> ===========================================================
>
> This report speaks of a patch, but it was some years ago now.
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805835

OK, this seems to have been the problem and fix:

 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529484

-- 
Regards,
Mick