@jdonald Wow (& sound a hats being taken off).
That really moves the boat forward - well done!
I did wonder what it was that allowed arch to work, and had a hunch that it
would be hiding in plain sight in their PKGBUILD file, if only I could
understand it.
Thank you for all that work - & your up
I thought it might be useful for you folks who have compiling experience
to compare the compiler switches used in the Trusty build for 57.04 with
those from Arch 59.0 (from post #90), so I've listed them in columns
(attached), after I attempted to pull the switches out of @herrtmison's
screenshot (
@Chituc:
I’m still running that build from my Debian aid environment so just checked now.
It’s not showing those flags in about:buildconfig
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@Chituc
I don't know if this is a helpful idea, or not, but here goes.
The problems are:
1 knowledge/expertise re compiling and linking specific to Firefox (sadly I
can't help there - no experience)
2 Long compile times to iterate - you've asked if anyone has arm64 that could
help.
Re 2, would
@ Chituc
Have been googling using clang to compile firefox. This link may be of interest:
https://github.com/JanitorTechnology/dockerfiles/issues/86
see the last post, which indicates support for compiling using clang versions
3.9 through to 6.0.
I see you're using 3.8...
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