Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:57:29 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@cokane.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird, enigmail, and GCC 3.4 Message-ID: <47CE0C19.7090301@cokane.org> In-Reply-To: <47CDE2BE.4010009@delphij.net> References: <47CDD627.2020808@cokane.org> <47CDE2BE.4010009@delphij.net>
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Xin LI wrote: > Coleman Kane wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to call your attention to ports/117285: >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117285 >> >> There seems to be some trouble when thunderbird is compiled with GCC >> 4.x. The current manifestation of this problem is a segfault on the >> registration (when thunderbird restarts) of the enigmail extension, >> which causes the install to fail to register the internal enigmime >> service. >> >> The above PR suggests downgrading thunderbird to GCC 3.4 until the >> problem is fixed. I don't know how many other extensions are affected >> by this. >> >> Either that, or the security/enigmail-thunderbird port should be >> modified so that it displays a message warning the user that it won't >> work after it is installed. >> >> AFAICT, it only affects amd64. Maybe USE_GCC can be 3.4 on amd64, and >> 3.4+ elsewhere? >> >> Thoughts? Comments? > > It seems that latest thunderbird gives me signal 8 (SIGFPE) upon > extension registration. I am busy at work right now and have no time > to investigate this, but building with gcc 3.4 did not worked for me > (I've modified both USE_GCC to 3.4, using -CURRENT as of today) :( > > Cheers, Neither way seems to be working for me now either, by the way... the enigmail bunch keeps blaming the problems on "using unofficial builds of thunderbird", but I don't really find that a fair excuse for an architecture that isn't supported by the mozilla people. Obviously the thing shouldn't be breaking here. I'm getting SIGFPE too btw, not SIGSEGV. -- Coleman
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