NixOS/nixpkgs — pull request #1367 by falsifian (2013-12-13 08:18:42+00:00)
Title: Firefox 26

Tested on my computer.

I needed to patch the build system to make Firefox compile. I don't exactly understand what I did, but I'm pretty sure my patch just changes how files are purged at some step, so it should be harmless.

Should I mention this upstream, or is this NixOS's fault?

Here is the error that the patch fixes. This happens after the build phase, so probabli during the install phase.

building tools
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/browser'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release'
building dist/bin/browser/.purgecaches
if test -d dist/bin/browser ; then touch dist/bin/browser/.purgecaches ; fi
building dist/bin/webapprt/.purgecaches
if test -d dist/bin/webapprt ; then touch dist/bin/webapprt/.purgecaches ; fi
installing
install flags: install SYSTEM_LIBXUL=1
building backend.RecursiveMakeBackend.built
Build configuration changed. Regenerating backend.
Reticulating splines...
building libgnashbase_la-RTMP.lo
CXX libgnashbase_la-RTMP.lo
/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DPLUGINSDIR=\"/nix/store/rfwywvbjgcf2jhsmj1p8bh0g2vdh7xc1-gnash-0.8.10/lib/gnash/plugins\" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/nix/store/rfwywvbjgcf2jhsmj1p8bh0g2vdh7xc1-gnash-0.8.10/etc\" -pthread -I/nix/store/jn120w693hhx1fx3yn45pmji66szsd6s-libpng-1.6.4/include/libpng16 -I/nix/store/vrgbgiv7wls0asdhgsh1z9l0mrvg4b2q-curl-7.33.0/include -DCURL_STATICLIB -I../librender -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wunused -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -c -o libgnashbase_la-RTMP.lo `test -f 'RTMP.cpp' || echo './'`RTMP.cpp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./config.status", line 945, in
config_status(**args)
File "/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/build/ConfigStatus.py", line 126, in config_status
summary = backend.consume(definitions)
File "/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/backend/base.py", line 210, in consume
self.consume_finished()
File "/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/backend/recursivemake.py", line 246, in consume_finished
CommonBackend.consume_finished(self)
File "/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/backend/common.py", line 58, in consume_finished
self._handle_idl_manager(self._idl_manager)
File "/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/backend/recursivemake.py", line 471, in _handle_idl_manager
xpidl_modules=' '.join(xpt_modules),
File "/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/backend/configenvironment.py", line 209, in create_config_file
return self.create_makefile(path, extra=extra)
File "/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/backend/configenvironment.py", line 231, in create_makefile
pp.do_include(self.get_input(path))
File "/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/config/Preprocessor.py", line 445, in do_include
raise Preprocessor.Error(self, 'FILE_NOT_FOUND', str(args))
Preprocessor.Error: ('', 0, 'FILE_NOT_FOUND', '/tmp/nix-build-firefox-26.0.drv-0/mozilla-release/config/makefiles/xpidl/Makefile.in')
make: *** [backend.RecursiveMakeBackend.built] Error 1
builder for `/nix/store/h7pwlhs2m0w4nl7zdbf4qnj9j5fnwsn3-firefox-26.0.drv' failed with exit code 2
cannot build derivation `/nix/store/887yrqwkaa3xm0yp809cbqzp8bvvx8id-firefox-26.0-with-plugins.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
error: build of `/nix/store/887yrqwkaa3xm0yp809cbqzp8bvvx8id-firefox-26.0-with-plugins.drv' failed