I wanted to know why firefox has not yet made it to testing, and
discovered that the build failed on alpha: looking at the buildd logs
(go to http://buildd.debian.org/ and search for firefox :) I
discovered that the build proceded quite a long way but then died near
what I take to be the end:
c++ -o firefox-bin -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth
-Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -mieee
-fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -pipe -w
-O2 nsBrowserApp.o nsStaticComponents.o -L../../dist/bin
-L../../dist/lib
-L../../dist/lib/components ../../dist/lib/libxulapp_s.a
-L../../dist/bin -lmozjs -L../../dist/bin -lxpcom
-lxpcom_core -L../../dist/lib -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -lpthread -ldl
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lXrandr -lXi
-lXinerama -lXext -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangocairo-1.0
-lfontconfig -lXcursor -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lXrender -lX11
-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0
-lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl
-lglib-2.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0
-lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-lX11 -ldl -lm ../../dist/lib/components/libxpcom_compat_c.a
../../dist/lib/components/libxpconnect.a
../../dist/lib/components/libuconv.a
../../dist/lib/components/libucvmath.a
../../dist/lib/components/libi18n.a
../../dist/lib/components/libnecko.a
../../dist/lib/components/libnecko2.a
../../dist/lib/components/libjar50.a
../../dist/lib/components/libpref.a
../../dist/lib/components/libcaps.a
../../dist/lib/components/librdf.a
../../dist/lib/components/libhtmlpars.a
../../dist/lib/components/libgfxps.a
../../dist/lib/components/libgfxxprint.a
../../dist/lib/components/libgfx_gtk.a
../../dist/lib/components/libimglib2.a
../../dist/lib/components/libgkplugin.a
../../dist/lib/components/libwidget_gtk2.a
../../dist/lib/components/libgklayout.a
../../dist/lib/components/libdocshell.a
../../dist/lib/components/libembedcomponents.a
../../dist/lib/components/libwebbrwsr.a
../../dist/lib/components/libeditor.a
../../dist/lib/components/libtxmgr.a
../../dist/lib/components/libcomposer.a
../../dist/lib/components/libnsappshell.a
../../dist/lib/components/liboji.a
../../dist/lib/components/libaccessibility.a
../../dist/lib/components/libchrome.a
../../dist/lib/components/libmork.a
../../dist/lib/components/libmozfind.a
../../dist/lib/components/libappcomps.a
../../dist/lib/components/libfileview.a
../../dist/lib/components/libremoteservice.a
../../dist/lib/components/libcommandlines.a
../../dist/lib/components/libtoolkitcomps.a
../../dist/lib/components/libpipboot.a
../../dist/lib/components/libpipnss.a
../../dist/lib/components/libpippki.a
../../dist/lib/components/libcookie.a
../../dist/lib/components/libxmlextras.a
../../dist/lib/components/libautoconfig.a
../../dist/lib/components/libsystem-pref.a
../../dist/lib/components/libtransformiix.a
../../dist/lib/components/libuniversalchardet.a
../../dist/lib/components/libwebsrvcs.a
../../dist/lib/components/libauth.a
../../dist/lib/components/libpermissions.a
../../dist/lib/components/libsearchservice.a
../../dist/lib/components/libbrowserdirprovider.a
../../dist/lib/components/libbrowsercomps.a
../../dist/lib/libunicharutil_s.a ../../dist/lib/libucvutil_s.a
../../dist/lib/libgtkxtbin.a ../../dist/lib/libgfxshared_s.a
../../dist/lib/libgfxpsshar.a ../../dist/lib/libxlibrgb.a
../../dist/lib/libxprintutil.a ../../dist/lib/libgkgfx.a
../../dist/lib/libjsj.a ../../dist/lib/libxulapp_s.a -L/usr/lib
-lpng -L/usr/lib -ljpeg -L/usr/lib -lz -L../../dist/bin
-L../../dist/lib ../../dist/lib/libcrmf.a -lsmime3 -lssl3 -lnss3
-lsoftokn3 -lcairo -lXinerama -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXt
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXp -lXext -lX11 -L../../dist/lib -lxpcom_compat
make[4]: *** Deleting file `firefox-bin'
make[2]: *** [tier_99] Terminated
make[3]: *** [libs] Terminated
make[4]: *** [firefox-bin] Terminated
make[1]: *** [default] Terminated
make: *** [build-stamp] Terminated
Build killed with signal 15 after 150 minutes of inactivity
So it seems as though it just hung on the firefox-bin linking.
Any clue?
Julian