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

[Mick]

Any idea how I can fix the errors it mentions below:

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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

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This report speaks of a patch, but it was some years ago now.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805835


-- 
Regards,
Mick