www-client/firefox fails to compile, please help

an7h · Post by **an7h** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:58 am

I have no idea what's wrong, but it refuses to compile.

Here's the /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox/temp/build.log :
https://filebin.net/ll1l2w7fqbeypdm2

Hope somebody can help figure out what I'm missing here.
Please tell me if any other additional info is required. Thanks.

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:11 am

I can't download file

an7h · Post by **an7h** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:39 am

^ fixed ^

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:49 pm

I can't / won't log in to google.

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 12:55 pm

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980:41.49 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: warning: libmozgtk.so, needed by ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
980:41.53 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gtk_print_settings_get_print_pages'
980:41.62 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gtk_tree_view_column_get_button'
980:41.63 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gdk_screen_get_system_visual'
980:41.63 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gtk_widget_grab_focus'
980:41.63 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gtk_page_setup_get_paper_size'
980:41.63 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gtk_main_iteration'
980:41.63 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gtk_widget_set_realized'
980:41.63 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gtk_combo_box_new_with_entry'
980:41.63 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so: undefined reference to `gtk_page_setup_set_bottom_margin'
...
980:42.81 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
980:42.81 gmake[4]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-80.0.1-r1/work/firefox-80.0.1/config/rules.mk:460: ../../dist/bin/plugin-container] Error 1
980:42.81 gmake[4]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-80.0.1-r1/work/firefox-80.0.1/ff/ipc/app'
980:42.81 gmake[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-80.0.1-r1/work/firefox-80.0.1/config/recurse.mk:72: ipc/app/target] Error 2
980:42.81 gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-80.0.1-r1/work/firefox-80.0.1/ff'
980:42.82 gmake[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-80.0.1-r1/work/firefox-80.0.1/config/recurse.mk:34: compile] Error 2
980:42.93 gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-80.0.1-r1/work/firefox-80.0.1/ff'
980:43.01 gmake[1]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-80.0.1-r1/work/firefox-80.0.1/config/rules.mk:390: default] Error 2
980:43.22 gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-80.0.1-r1/work/firefox-80.0.1/ff'
980:43.25 gmake: *** [client.mk:125: build] Error 2
980:44.87 11 compiler warnings present.

Maybe recompile gtk+:3

Post by **Ionen** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:13 pm

Looking at the log it seem like gtk+:3 was detected properly, but libmozgtk.so wasn't built (only the stub was, I don't see a line with "-o libmozgtk.so" while I do in my own logs), and now it's failing to find it.

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980:41.49 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/9.3.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld.bfd: warning: libmozgtk.so, needed by ../../toolkit/library/build/libxul.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

Not quite sure what is happening myself, maybe it's something i686-specific new in 80.0.x but I don't have a i686 system ready anymore to try and reproduce.

As mentioned above could try to rebuild gtk+:3 anyway, but I feel there's something else going on.

Edit: Posting USE from build.log for those that can't download:

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 * USE:        abi_x86_32 dbus elibc_glibc gmp-autoupdate kernel_linux l10n_ru openh264 screenshot system-av1 system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-webp userland_GNU x86
 * FEATURES:   network-sandbox sandbox userpriv usersandbox

an7h · Post by **an7h** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:22 pm

Sorry, but I wasn't sure where to upload. I would've used pastebin, but it doesn't allow for large files. Anyway, uploaded it to something else not related to google at all.

The only reason I use google is for my music playlist on youtube. Yeah, I know, it's silly, but it's an account created years ago without any phone number attached, so whatever. They keep trying to fish out that phone number (for "security reasons"), but I just say NO.

Sometimes I need the drive, though, for large files.

I recompiled gtk+:3, hope it helps.

an7h · Post by **an7h** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 11:03 am

Unfortunately recompiling/updating gtk+:3 did not resolve the issue. Does somebody have any other ideas?

-- edit --
I'll try compiling =www-client/firefox-78.0.2::sabayon . Hopefully it'll work.

Tony0945 · Post by **Tony0945** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:21 pm

I run firefox-bin for sites that insist on firefox. I'm not going to install rust or pulseaudio just for a backup browser.

an7h · Post by **an7h** » Sat Sep 26, 2020 4:10 pm

The only version that compiled is =www-client/firefox-68.12.0, which is marked as stable.

Perfect Gentleman · Post by **Perfect Gentleman** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 4:45 pm

build it with LLVM/Clang.

an7h · Post by **an7h** » Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:19 pm

@Perfect Gentleman
Yeah, I noticed the use flag for that, but what about performance? It's a really old laptop, but I'm messing around again to see the extent of optimization I can achieve.

Guess I'll try anyway, though. Only one way to find out.

Post by **Ionen** » Wed Sep 30, 2020 8:08 pm

Upstream firefox (aka firefox-bin), actually use clang+lto+pgo. So it's most tested with clang nowadays while a gcc-built version is sometime plagued by oversights (sometime leading to strange runtime errors if not during building, gentoo did make an effort to patch those whenever it happens though).

And now here's an extra thing, if you don't build with pgo (which doubles build time), then your built firefox will most likely run worse than firefox-bin regardless of things like -march/-Ctarget-cpu=native (pgo usually gives more noticeable results than those do).

If building is non-trivial for you (like say, a laptop), might as well use firefox-bin unless you need things can only get from source -- like patches, use more system libraries, ppc/arm64 build, or ALSA without apulse (although apulse offer better compatibility than the hardly-worked-on alsa backend that mozilla might remove anytime, apulse[sdk] also allow to build without pulseaudio on non-68 ebuilds).

No idea if USE=clang would help with those gtk issues though, but "possible" if there's a bug in the build system only triggered on i686+gcc+maybe something else. System did go through a lot of changes in >=78 and could explain why 68 works for you.
Edit: may also want to try the new ebuilds from yesterday (they were entirely revised, ported to eapi7, moz eclass removed, and python2 dep removed), aka firefox:0/esr78 and >=firefox-81.0, would be nice to find issues before 0/esr78 is stabilized.

Perfect Gentleman · Post by **Perfect Gentleman** » Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:51 am

@an7h, I don't know what USE flags do you have, but building with clang has some advantages. Some of them are less RAM consumed, faster building.

an7h · Post by **an7h** » Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:27 pm

Well, I was able to compile =www-client/firefox-82.0_beta3::anarchy with gcc, although I believe this is not related to the overlay or version. Other than trying to build a newer version of firefox I also updated clang and llvm, which most likely, in my opinion, fixed the problem. I'm not sure what fixed it, but previously I wasn't able to compile anything newer than the rather outdated stable version.