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Re: Errors building mozilla thunderbird 38.7.0 with gcc 6
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Daniel Letai <dani at letai dot org dot il>
- Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 10:11:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: Errors building mozilla thunderbird 38.7.0 with gcc 6
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On 5 May 2016 at 10:08, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 5 May 2016 at 10:03, Daniel Letai wrote:
>> I could be wrong but it appears there are 2 distinct errors - in gcc6 itself
>> (specifically in header files) and in thunderbird (although this version
>> does compile with gcc 4.8.2)
>>
>> Background - rebuilding the thunderbird 38.7.0 rpm (from redhat) using gcc6
>> and binutild 2.26 in RHEL 6.7
>>
>> I'm wandering if this is a result of moving to std-14 as default and thus
>> not a bug, or if there is some issue with stdlib.h/cstdlib ?
>
> The heaer problem is a bug in the mozilla code, see
s/heaer/header/
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70722 and
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70872
And the other problem is probably due to not finding the right
headers, so is the same problem.
If not, then the call to abs(sl) might need to be adjusted to pass an
integer, not a double.
Both of these issues are documented at https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html