Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Unable to compile icecat 24.0

[Ian Egland]

I was recently compiled IceCat 24.0 on two different machines running gNewSense 
3.

Linux <hostnameremoved> 2.6.32-5gnewsense1-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Oct 6 10:04:36 UTC 
2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I did not use mach though I know the mozilla README says to. Instead, I 
followed the IceCat README, which says:

BUILD FROM TARBALL
==================
From the released IceCat source tarball, you can build in the
standard way:
./configure && make

Be sure you have installed the needed libraries.  If you want to tune
the configuration process you can change the default setup using the
file .mozconfig.

The default configuration of IceCat uses the following libraries:
libpango libpangoxft libpangoft2 libfreetype libxft libgtk2 libx11

Refer to your distro help as needed if the configure script fails to
find them.


INSTALL
=======
When you have it built you can install it with:
make install

If you want to install in a staging directory, you can do this:
make install DESTDIR=/foo/bar

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:19:52 +0100
Sian Mountbatten <address@hidden> wrote:

> I went to the web page for secure software and downloaded and tried to
> compile icecat-24.0. I continually received the following result:
> Last messages from './mach build' for the standard '.mozconfig' shipped with 
> 'icecat-24.0.tar.gz':
> ===========================================
> 30:50.84     
> INPUT("../../media/webrtc/signaling/signaling_sipcc/src/sipcc/cpr/linux/cpr_linux_string.o")
> 30:50.84     
> INPUT("../../media/webrtc/signaling/signaling_sipcc/src/sipcc/cpr/linux/cpr_linux_threads.o")
> 30:50.84     
> INPUT("../../media/webrtc/signaling/signaling_sipcc/src/sipcc/cpr/linux/cpr_linux_timers_using_select.o")
> 30:50.84 
> 30:50.84 /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Memory exhausted
> 30:50.84 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 30:50.84 /home/sian/src/c/icecat-24.0/config/rules.mk:1023: recipe for target 
> 'libxul.so' failed
> 30:50.84 make[5]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1
> 30:50.84 /home/sian/src/c/icecat-24.0/config/makefiles/target_libs.mk:16: 
> recipe for target 'libs_tier_platform' failed
> 30:50.84 make[4]: *** [libs_tier_platform] Error 2
> 30:50.84 /home/sian/src/c/icecat-24.0/config/rules.mk:737: recipe for target 
> 'tier_platform' failed
> 30:50.84 make[3]: *** [tier_platform] Error 2
> 30:50.84 /home/sian/src/c/icecat-24.0/config/rules.mk:670: recipe for target 
> 'default' failed
> 30:50.84 make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
> 30:50.84 /home/sian/src/c/icecat-24.0/client.mk:372: recipe for target 
> 'realbuild' failed
> 30:50.84 make[1]: *** [realbuild] Error 2
> 30:50.84 client.mk:172: recipe for target 'build' failed
> 30:50.84 make: *** [build] Error 2
> 30:50.87 700 compiler warnings present.
> ===========================================
> I have 8GB RAM and 8GB swap and I have disabled cache memory so that 'top'
> reports more than 7.3GiB free.
> 
> My system is Debian GNU/Linux jessie 32-bit with kernel 3.13-1-686-pae SMP 
> being used
> on a computer with Intel i5 (4 cores).
> 
> Perhaps you could make a binary copy of icecat 24.0 available to me?
>