Running Slack64-current with latest update as of 30.8.2017 (with Cargo built into Rust). Using the SlackBuild and everything from the Slackware source folder. The build dies after a while. Running AlienBob's checkpkg on the build log gives the following -


root@missi:/patches/mozilla-firefox$ ./checkpkg -l build.log
++ Checking logfile 'build.log' (no news is good news):
57258: firefox-55.0.3/dom/html/test/forms/FAIL.html
209109: Fatal server error:
209441: js/src> checking for the Android toolchain directory... not found
210127: dom_geolocation nsIDOMGeoGeolocation nsIDOMGeoPosition nsIDOMGeoPositionCallback nsIDOMGeoPositionCoords nsIDOMGeoPositionError nsIDOMGeoPositionErrorCallback
210607: storage mozIStorageAggregateFunction mozIStorageAsyncConnection mozIStorageAsyncStatement mozIStorageBaseStatement mozIStorageBindingParams mozIStorageBindingParamsArray mozIStorageCompletionCallback mozIStorageConnection mozIStorageError mozIStorageFunction mozIStoragePendingStatement mozIStorageProgressHandler mozIStorageResultSet mozIStorageRow mozIStorageService mozIStorageStatement mozIStorageStatementCallback mozIStorageStatementParams mozIStorageStatementRow mozIStorageVacuumParticipant mozIStorageValueArray
212755: if (U_FAILURE(status)) {
222083: roundingError -= 1;
226018: /tmp/firefox-55.0.3/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/rtp_rtcp/source/h264_sps_parser.cc:17:0: warning: "RETURN_FALSE_ON_FAIL" redefined
226019: #define RETURN_FALSE_ON_FAIL(x) \
226023: #define RETURN_FALSE_ON_FAIL(x) \
232811: #define SkFAIL(message) SK_ABORT(message)
232813: /tmp/firefox-55.0.3/gfx/skia/skia/src/gpu/gl/GrGLPath.cpp:199:13: note: in expansion of macro 'SkFAIL'
232814: SkFAIL("Incomplete Switch\n");
232865: #define SkFAIL(message) SK_ABORT(message)
232867: /tmp/firefox-55.0.3/gfx/skia/skia/src/gpu/gl/GrGLPathRendering.cpp:71:13: note: in expansion of macro 'SkFAIL'
232868: SkFAIL("Unexpected path fill.");
234896: #define SkFAIL(message) SK_ABORT(message)
234898: /tmp/firefox-55.0.3/gfx/skia/skia/src/gpu/GrPathRendering.cpp:18:13: note: in expansion of macro 'SkFAIL'
234899: SkFAIL("Unexpected path fill.");
235134: #define SkFAIL(message) SK_ABORT(message)
235136: /tmp/firefox-55.0.3/gfx/skia/skia/src/gpu/instanced/InstanceProcessor.cpp:1678:13: note: in expansion of macro 'SkFAIL'
235137: SkFAIL("Unexpected antialias mode.");
241989: /tmp/firefox-55.0.3/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/audio_device/linux/audio_device_alsa_linux.cc:2155: undefined reference to `LogLatency(AsyncLatencyLogger::LatencyLogIndex, unsigned long, long)'
241990: /tmp/firefox-55.0.3/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/audio_device/linux/audio_device_alsa_linux.cc:2152: undefined reference to `LogTime(AsyncLatencyLogger::LatencyLogIndex, unsigned long, long)'
241993: collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
241994: make[6]: *** [/tmp/firefox-55.0.3/config/rules.mk:642: webrtc-gtest] Error 1
241996: make[5]: *** [/tmp/firefox-55.0.3/config/recurse.mk:73: media/webrtc/trunk/gtest/target] Error 2
242004: make[4]: *** [/tmp/firefox-55.0.3/config/recurse.mk:33: compile] Error 2
242006: make[3]: *** [/tmp/firefox-55.0.3/config/rules.mk:519: default] Error 2
242008: make[2]: *** [/tmp/firefox-55.0.3/client.mk:419: realbuild] Error 2
242010: make[1]: *** [/tmp/firefox-55.0.3/client.mk:232: profiledbuild] Error 2
242012: make: *** [client.mk:170: build] Error 2
|install mawk). For LFS: we put mktemp in /usr/bin not /bin, remove
root@missi:/patches/mozilla-firefox$


It looks like one of the major faults is -

js/src> checking for the Android toolchain directory... not found


I have no idea why it would be looking for an Android toolchain. Any thoughts?? Thanks in advance

The real error is:
Apparently fixed in Firefox 56 (so you need to wait or find a patch): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384655

Looks like this is the patch you need: https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozi...v/e4f5cc3fbd93

Wow, that was fast Eric. Thank you. Will give it a go. Wonder how the Slackware folks got it built if this is a bug.

Newsflash - The Slackware crew are definitely not slackers, but rather top tier code monkeys. We mere mortals can but aspire.

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To note that I have a pair of clean and up to date installations of Slackware(64) current, installed in its own partitions.

And, on this reference installations, the Firefox 5.0.3 builds fine and the resulted packages works just like the ones shipped by the Slackware Team.

I tested/built this on both i586 and x86_64 archs.

Then, could be some of your own customization of the operating system which affects the Firefox build. Most likely, you tried a PulseAudio "free" build?

Finally, to note that, from what I read, is supposed that the new versions of Firefox does NOT use multiple audio backends for WebRTC, rather relying on the system's PulseAudio for Linux targets. You know, everyone have it now, even Slackware...

Well, I tried the patch and it tells me that it had already been applied (and do I want to reverse it). I have the Slackware version of Pulseaudio installed so that's not it. Will have to assume that it is something added to the system that is causing the problem. Since FF works fine I will stop my effort to build it myself. Thanks to all for your responses.

UPDATE---

I tried building FF-56.0b8 just for grins and it builds just fine. Running it now.

UPDATE-1 -

Built FF FF56.0b8 with pgo enabled. Built OK but lots of problems with the program. Built again with pgo disabled and all is fine again. FWIW.

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