[Help] Compiling Firefox 9.0.1 for/on Pogoplug (armv5)

[cyberic]

Ok I trust you guys, you sure know what you are doing, I didn't want to offend anyone, and I thank you for what you do for Archlinux.
Nevertheless, regarding your sentence $this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')he official ct-ng environment used in the build system is built from the same gcc/glibc/binutils source tarballs as the versions used natively

[kmihelich]

Emulated environment != native environment. There just isn't a way around that. And since the crosstools GCC is a native x86 program pumping out ARM object files in the same way the native compiler does.. I'm out of ways to show that it's a better process.

[moonman]

I had problems setting up distcc with ubuntu. WIll try archlinux 3 this time...
And about qemu. I had that setup a long time ago and I compiled kernel for the plug. Plug would not boot up so I had to re-setup everything. Compiled the same source-code with the same options on the plug itself, and it booted up.

[macau]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kurlon', 'T')he patch to disable the neon tests doesn't seem to actually disable the neon tests looking at configure's output. I'ma get a bit more 'agressive' about the matter and try again.

[Kurlon]

So, after I figured out that patches to configure.in require a run of autoconf to actually impact configure... yeah I know, rookie mistake... FF 9.0.1 built cleanly. I'm installing and testing now.

Ok, so it built and installed, and even opens! It died with an illegal instruction when I went to check out the alARM home page. So still not stable yet. I'll post my patch later so others can poke at it to see where to tweak next.

[Kurlon]

I've included the patch I used, this covers everything after pulling down the 9.0.1 release tarball and extracting it.

I configured with:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', './configure --disable-neon --disable-necko-wifi --disable-debug-symbols')

Based on the illegal instructions everywhere I almost wonder if some portions are trying to compile as ARMv7?

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kurlon', 'I')'ve included the patch I used, this covers everything after pulling down the 9.0.1 release tarball and extracting it.

I configured with:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', './configure --disable-neon --disable-necko-wifi --disable-debug-symbols')

Based on the illegal instructions everywhere I almost wonder if some portions are trying to compile as ARMv7?

[Kurlon]

So, forcing -march=armv5 everything sill compiles without error, but running generates invalid instruction errors and bombs out. I wonder if it's something in the JS interpreter that's generating bytecode on the fly and doing so for the wrong arch? Next step is breaking out the debugger I suspect, which is where I'm completely out of my element.

Edit: http://old.nabble.com/Illegal-instructi ... 30987.html seems relevant...

[moonman]

Isn't java bytecode platform independent? Only java interpreter

On a side note what happens if you visit a website without any javascrip?

[Kurlon]

It works as long as I don't allow autocomplete to work in the addressbar... that seems to trip it up also.