[OpenIndiana-discuss] Tasks to focus on -- firefox

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 08.01.21 um 10:55 schrieb Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss:
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> Am 08.01.21 10:25 schrieb "Joshua M. Clulow"  <josh at sysmgr.org>:
>> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 23:34, Carsten Grzemba via openindiana-discuss
>> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 07.01.21 23:47, Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>>>>> If you hit any trouble with Rust, I'd love to hear about it! We have
>>>>>> a good relationship with the Rust project itself, so we should be able
>>>>>> to get things fixed as they arise, without needing to float additional
>>>>>> patches.
>>> I try to build firefox 78esr for openindiana. The problems with Rust are much smaller than a while ago.
>> I took a spin at building Firefox last year, and while I didn't get a
>> complete build finished (ran out of time) it was honestly easier to
>> get master to build than ESR. The main branch usually uses updated
>> crates, and thus tends to have _better_ support for illumos than the
>> older ESR branches.
>>
>>> But I stopped to use the rustc installed with rustup because this use a toolchain naming like x86_64-unknown-illumos.
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>>> For that the rustc sources build instruction have to extent for target_os "solaris" to target_os "illumos", which is an additional effort.
>>>
>>> So I updated the oi-userland build reciept for rust to provide an newer version (1.41.1) where the target tripple x86_64-sun-solaris is used.
>>> So there are no patching of lib.rs and others is necessary.
>>> Or it is possible with rustup to get the target toolchain x86_64-sun-solaris also?
>> The old "sun-solaris" targets are not really being maintained by the
>> illumos community at this point -- either in the Rust toolchain
>> itself, or in the crates in the Rust ecosystem at large. I would
>> recommend using the illumos target and getting any build issues fixed
>> upstream in whatever crates have remaining platform-specific issues.
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>> I and some other folks have been doing that sort of thing a lot
>> throughout 2019-2020. Most or all of our patches and testing are for
>> the illumos target, even if the Solaris targets sometimes also come
>> along for the ride.
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>> I think it'd be best if OI ships an illumos target toolchain for Rust,
>> rather than the increasingly obsolete solaris target. Then we're all
>> testing and working on the same bits!
>>
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>> Joshua M. Clulow
>> http://blog.sysmgr.org
>>
> Some other findings related buld FF on OI
> <signatureafterquotedtext>- update ICU, if we want use system ICU
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> - update mozilla-nss, if we want system-nss
> - update rust
> - if we use system-sqlite3, in sqlite3 libsqlite-3 2 symbols not exported because these missing in mapfile
> these all are already in my repository on github
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> - readelf (2.34) of our binutil package is unable to read the libxul.so, readelf (2.33) of Solaris 11.4 can it read. updated readelf (2.35.2) reports less errors but fails also.
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> I deceide to use GCC9 because the trouble to compile with clang was bigger, GCC7 stopped with a suspicouse memory allocation error.
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> Carsten
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It's good to see that people try to build things. But I want to ask you
all to do that more openly and work together.
We have our Github repositories for PR's, discussion groups and mailing
lists. If everybody tries to work together
the burden for the maintainers will be lesser and the advancements for
OI better. I have the impression that a lot of necessary
updates would have already been possible with a little bit more cooperation.

Andreas