On 2017-10-08, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:51:41 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> When I did my usual update today firefox 52.4.0 failed to build. >> There are thousands of compiler warnings in the build log, but the >> only thing I can find that looks like an error is this:
[...] >> Google provides zero hits for any of those three errors. > Your compiler is barfing at something, but I'm no coder to know what > this might be. Yes, thanks, those are g++ compiler error messages. I could track down and fix the problem in the source code, but since it's a "stable" system, and firefox builds fine on other systems, I should have to do that. > In a Gentoo context, I'd start by checking you have installed and > switched to sys-devel/gcc-5.4.0-r3 Yep, I'm using gcc-5.4.0-r3. There were 20+ other packages that got built in that same upgrade, and they all went fine. > which is the latest stable version and at least here compiled and > installed firefox-52.4.0 on 4 PCs without a problem. As have I. I was afraid it might be failing RAM, but a second attempt failed in exactly the same way. I guess I'll delete the ebuild files and the source tarball to force a download and then try again. -- Grant
