Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:01:02 -0800 From: Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@cokane.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird, enigmail, and GCC 3.4 Message-ID: <47CDE2BE.4010009@delphij.net> In-Reply-To: <47CDD627.2020808@cokane.org> References: <47CDD627.2020808@cokane.org>
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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, -- Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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