Bug 225279

Summary: www/firefox: fix build on armv7
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Mikael Urankar <mikael>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-gecko (Nobody) <gecko>
Status: Closed Overcome By Events    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: freebsd-arm, linimon, mikael
Priority: --- Flags: bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (gecko)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: arm   
OS: Any   
Bug Depends on: 216143, 224271    
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Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-06-11 22:28:06 UTC 

I can't get it to build with my testing, it fails with:

mozbuild.frontend.reader.BuildReaderError: 
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ERROR PROCESSING MOZBUILD FILE
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http://www.lonesome.com/FreeBSD/poudriere/data/logs/bulk/head-2018Q2-armv7-quarterly/2018-06-11_06h45m45s/logs/errors/firefox-esr-52.8.1,1.log
Comment 2 Mikael Urankar freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-07-02 18:16:58 UTC 
obe, firefox-esr requires rust
Comment 3 Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-07-02 19:19:45 UTC 
Some bits can still be salvaged/rebased. I couldn't review this without upstream help which requires ability to test the latest development version.
Comment 4 Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-03-02 22:25:56 UTC 
Can you rebase patches against www/firefox or submit upstream? ESR60 will reach EOL in a few months.

Is browser.tabs.remote.autostart still required?
Comment 5 Mikael Urankar freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-09-07 15:44:15 UTC 
Created attachment 207261 [details]
patch

someone kindly asked me to update the patch (it's hackish)
I won't upstream it. building firefox on arm is extremely fragile: lots of code churn, very linux centric, seems to only support armv7/neon and www/node tends to crash every now and then (v12.9.0 seems ok so far). Moreover, we can't build it on the cluster due to the use of qemu-user/rust.
The porting was made on a dirty environment I'm not sure it'll build with poudriere.
Feel free to close the pr, I won't work on it anymore.