Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Compiling Iceweasel

[Marcus Moeller]

Dear Sam.

> > Are you compiling with: --with-system-libvpx which could be a
> > workaround?
>
> I did try that, but iceweasel wants a version of libvpx that is newer
> than the package in Wheezy, so it's configured to use its own in-tree
> version. I then tried --disable-webm, but that resulted in the error
> with which I started this thread.
>
> I'm now doing another test build on the Yeeloong with the unmodified
> iceweasel source. As expected, it seems stuck on the libvpx part again.
> I'm going to give it even more time now, though I find it hard to
> believe that it's doing anything useful at this point. I suspect
> there's a Yeeloong specific bug in gcc that causes an infinite loop,
> but I wasn't planning on tracing that. The other option is backporting
> libvpx from Sid.

Backporting libvpx could be a valid option.

I vote for iceweasel as an available option. I personally don't care if 
it's installed by default. So we could even push the release and offer 
iceweasel at a later state.

Btw. is one of you guys going to FOSDEM?

Greets
Marcus

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