Re: iceweasel issues (update)

[Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 08:59:52PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
> The alpha specific ipc patch in bug 650151 [1] has been applied, and
> interestingly there were no GPREL16 relocation errors in linking despite
> absence of --no-relax during linking, as far as I can tell from the
> build log.
> 
> It mostly built, that is 'debian/rules build' succeeded, but it failed
> while running 'debian/rules binary' with the error:
> 
> --->
>   adding: hyphenation/hyph_is.dic (deflated 50%)
>   adding: update.locale (stored 0%)
> <jemalloc>Compile-time page size does not divide the runtime one.
> Redirecting call to abort() to mozalloc_abort
> 
> Segmentation fault
> <---
> 
> I wonder if the page size error is related to the page size issue
> mentioned for the madvise bug [2].

Could well be.  For recent firefox/iceweasel builds, we sometimes get
a preview of things that are broken during the packaging process,
because some of the build products get used during packaging.  I'd say
the trick is going to be finding where a 4K page size is hardcoded.

--Bob