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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about Pale Moon
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:10:16
Message-Id: 4612202.zDUqr7onHv@peak
In Reply to: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about Pale Moon by Walter Dnes
1 On Friday, 26 January 2018 13:20:04 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:43:31AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote
3 >
4 > > This is with gcc 4.9.4, and I get the same with gcc 6.4.0. I've only
5 > > just noticed that about -fPIC; haven't all those problems been fixed
6 > > by now?
7 >
8 > This may or may not be relavant. I build Pale Moon manually for my
9 > home machines, using the Mozilla Firefox process. 64-bit builds worked
10 > fine with GCC-6.4.0 on profile 13.0. Anything built with GCC-6.x under
11 > profile 17.0 segfaults in 10-15 seconds after launching Pale Moon. A
12 > custom-built GCC-5.4.0 builds a stable Pale Moon.
13
14 I haven't yet managed to compile 27.7.1 at all with either GCC 6.4.0 or
15 4.9.4, using the palemoon overlay via layman, on profile default/linux/
16 amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma. I get the loader errors I quoted on Wednesday.
17
18 I wonder whether I should try the 17.1 profile...
19
20 > I'm currently doing a test build with GCC-6.4.0 on my 32-bit desktop,
21 > having just finished the migration to 17.0. Current ICEWM 1.4.2 (and
22 > 1.4.0) crashes out of X to a text console when I click on the menu bar
23 > at the bottom. I've dropped back to 1.3.12-r1 ...and copied the ebuild
24 > over to a local overlay. I'm not liking profile 17.0 far.
25
26 --
27 Regards,
28 Peter.