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From: cal <cal@×××××××××.technology>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure ..
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:21:41
Message-Id: 864b1773-ac74-9a7e-4e69-0e35a960fa7e@mail.meme.technology
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure .. by Wol
1 On 1/1/23 13:05, Wol wrote:
2 > On 01/01/2023 20:08, cal wrote:
3 >> FWIW, Thunderbird builds fine with GCC on my machine -- I'm unsure of
4 >> your reasons for setting your Portage compiler to clang, but you may
5 >> wish to use a package.env override to build Thunderbird with GCC as a
6 >> workaround until the problem can be fixed upstream.
7 >
8 > I don't know anything about clang ... it must be the default ...
9 >
10 > I thought part of Firefox/Thunderbird was written in Rust, so I assumed
11 > it was built with llvm as a matter of course.
12 >
13 > I'll just wait for it to sort itself out.
14 >
15 > Cheers,
16 > Wol
17 You're right, it looks like the Thunderbird ebuild has a clang USE
18 turned on by default; I didn't realize that in my earlier reply and
19 assumed you had overridden this yourself. Regardless, this version
20 built correctly on my machine, so it's worthy of investigation with
21 upstream which combinations of parameters may be triggering the crash.
22
23 cal

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