Re: [gentoo-user] Building firefox-61 with distcc

[Branko Grubic]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 13:14:22 -0700
Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:

> Well, I discovered some of my plugins stopped working on Firefox
> because they've been updated to the new plugin format.
>
> I've been using distcc for a long time now, and I've tried to build
> firefox and it fails with:
>
> --------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in
> __bootstrap_inner self.run()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run
>     self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
>   File
> "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-61.0-r1/work/firefox-61.0/testing/mozbase/mozprocess/mozprocess/processhandler.py",
> line 1028, in _read
>     callback(line.rstrip())
>   File
> "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-61.0-r1/work/firefox-61.0/testing/mozbase/mozprocess/mozprocess/processhandler.py",
> line 944, in __call__
>     e(*args, **kwargs)
>   File
> "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-61.0-r1/work/firefox-61.0/python/mach/mach/mixin/process.py",
> line 86, in handleLine
>     line_handler(line)
>   File
> "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-61.0-r1/work/firefox-61.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/controller/building.py",
> line 681, in on_line
>     self.log(logging.INFO, 'build_output', {'line': message},
> '{line}') File
> "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-61.0-r1/work/firefox-61.0/python/mach/mach/mixin/logging.py",
> line 54, in log
>     extra={'action': action, 'params': params})
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1231, in log
>     self._log(level, msg, args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1286, in _log
>     self.handle(record)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1296, in
> handle self.callHandlers(record)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 1336, in
> callHandlers
>     hdlr.handle(record)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/logging/__init__.py", line 759, in handle
>     self.emit(record)
>   File
> "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-61.0-r1/work/firefox-61.0/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/controller/building.py",
> line 564, in emit
>     self.fh.write(msg)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
> 138-140: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> ----------
>
> What I'm trying to figure out is if this is due to the recent python
> changes or if it really is a distcc problem as per:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/662516
>
> (I just noticed they tagged it wontfix. :(  )
>
> Has anyone found a solution for this other than disabling distcc
> altogether? I'm going to try that now and see if it compiles.
>
> If it does turn out to be distcc is there a method to disable distcc
> just for the firefox package? The distcc article @ gentoo wiki doesn't
> mention anything.
>
> Dan
>

Same issue here with FF and distcc, it's happening for few releases
now, whenever I tried to find a solution I was going over some old
build system issues with FF on their bugzilla.

You can disable distcc for specific package using package.use[1].
I have just two things set:
FEATURES="-distcc -distcc-pump"
and MAKEOPTS reduced in the nodistcc.conf 


[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env