Changeset 532e5c9 for xsoft

Timestamp:

06/26/2022 04:50:09 PM (22 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

0fa93ad4

Parents:

99fede1f

Message:

SeaMonkey - use clang instead of gcc.

File:

• xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml

@@ -9 +9 @@
   <!ENTITY seamonkey-md5sum        "173512018674c9036cb54d35ded4a23f">
   <!ENTITY seamonkey-size          "275 MB">
-  <!ENTITY seamonkey-buildsize     "6.0 GB (159 MB installed)">
-  <!ENTITY seamonkey-time          "17 SBU (with parallelism=4)">
+  <!ENTITY seamonkey-buildsize     "4.5 GB (155 MB installed)">
+  <!ENTITY seamonkey-time          "13 SBU (with parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
@@ -250 +250 @@
       <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
        href="../../xincludes/mozshm.xml"/>
-      <!-- if this package switches to using ./mach, replace the
-           folliowing by including mozmach.xml -->
       <!--<para>
         Second, either as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
@@ -274 +272 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen><userinput>export CC=gcc CXX=g++ &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>export CC=clang CXX=clang++ AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm RANLIB=llvm-ranlib &amp;&amp;
 ./mach configure      &amp;&amp;
 ./mach build</userinput></screen>
@@ -308 +306 @@
 
     <para>
-      <command>export CC=gcc CXX=g++ ...</command>: Upstream now prefer
-      <application>clang</application> so that they can use one compiler
-      everywhere. On the X86 architectures <application>clang</application>
-      takes a little longer than gcc to compile mozilla applications.
+      <command>export CC=clang CXX=clang++ AR=llvm-ar NM=llvm-nm
+      RANLIB=llvm-ranlib</command>:
+      With the introduction of <application>gcc-12</application>, many
+      more warnings are generated when compiling mozilla applications
+      and that results in a much slower, and slightly larger, build.
+      Although upstream mozilla code defaults to using
+      <application>llvm</application> unless overridden, the older configure
+      code in <application>SeaMonkey</application> defaults to gcc and needs
+      to have the programs all specified.
+ <!-- ken: I checked without specifying and it used gcc, g++ so I added all as
+ had been necessary in the past. Perhaps only CC and CXX are really needed, -->
     </para>