On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 01:08:46PM +0200, Michal Meloun wrote: > > On 08.05.2017 10:56, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > On 8 May 2017, at 05:33, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Is this worth a bug report, or is firefox too far over the horizon > >> for freebsd-arm? > >> > > > > Also, I wonder why they don't use the integrated assembler in clang, but > > that is an aspect of the firefox port I'm not familiar with. > > > > The integrated clang assembler cannot be used because Mozilla extensive > uses macros in assembly code, and macros are not supported by clang. > Moreover, many pieces of assembly files still uses pre-UAL syntax. > > Unfortunately, replacing base as (by the one from port) is not > sufficient - the Mozilla build system doesn't pass external CFLAGS to > assembly files (.S), so build fails again later. >
I gather this is a familiar and relatively intractable problem 8-( Would a bug report be useful? bob prohaska _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
