On Wednesday, 26 April 2017 18:08 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
- Firefox requires rust mandatorily now to build https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030232
And that is only where the problems start. I tried to build current Firefox mercurial snapshot on 42.2 and failed abysmally. It does not only need rust, it needs a very recent one (to quote their bug 1284816: "The latest stable distribution, not the latest git snapshot. Rust has a stable release every six weeks." - for suitable definition of "stable", sure). And it also requires gcc >= 4.9 while 42.2 has 4.8 as default. Normally, one would just set CC to gcc-5 and CXX to g++-5 but even then rust (I picked 1.6 from devel project) still complains that it cannot execute linker `cc`. At that point, I had to ask myself if it's still worth the hassle with the looming drop of the interface most extensions use. I don't know if they try to alienate both users and packagers on purpose or if they are just clueless but the result is the same. :-( Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org