Would you please update iceweasel for Debian/Wheezy on armhf?

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Mike,

On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 09:25:49AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:44:46PM +0000, Symeon Huang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Sorry to bother. But I see that iceweasel 31.2 already hit on repository
> > for many architectures now. Even for armel. So I don't think there would be
> > hardware issues on armhf. Could you please update the iceweasel for
> > Debian/Wheezy on armhf?
> 
> It should have been built like any other architecture, but since
> developers don't have access to build logs for security updates, I can't
> say anything.
> 
> Security team, what's up with armhf?

According to buildd status it has been attempted but failed:

* iceweasel/armhf
  | iceweasel:
  |   Package             : iceweasel
  |   Version             : 31.2.0esr-2~deb7u1
  |   Builder             : buildd_armhf-henze
  |   State               : Build-Attempted
  |   Section             : web
  |   Priority            : source
  |   Installed-Version   : 24.8.1esr-1~deb7u1
  |   Previous-State      : Building
  |   State-Change        : 2014-10-18 05:21:52.942067
  |   CalculatedPri       : 50
  |   component           : main
  |   Distribution        : wheezy-security
  |   Notes               : out-of-date
  |   State-Days          : 14
  |   State-Time          : 1215344

and it failed with

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[...]
  --enable-gstreamer=0.10
  --with-user-appdir=.mozilla
  --enable-single-profile
  --disable-profilesharing
  --disable-updater
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
checking target system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
checking build system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
checking for mawk... mawk
checking for python2.7... /usr/bin/python2.7
Creating Python environment
New python executable in /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/_virtualenv/bin/python2.7
Also creating executable in /«PKGBUILDDIR»/build-browser/_virtualenv/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip...done.
WARNING: Python.h not found. Install Python development headers.
Error processing command. Ignoring because optional. (optional:setup.py:python/psutil:build_ext:--inplace)
checking Python environment is Mozilla virtualenv... yes
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for objcopy... /usr/bin/objcopy
checking for gcc... gcc-4.9
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
checking whether the C compiler (gcc-4.9 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads -Wl,--no-keep-memory -Wl,--stats)
 works... no
------ config.log ------
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:1207: checking host system type
configure:1228: checking target system type
configure:1246: checking build system type
configure:1321: checking for mawk
configure:1406: checking for python2.7
configure:1516: checking Python environment is Mozilla virtualenv
configure:1737: checking for perl5
configure:1737: checking for perl
configure:2212: checking for objcopy
configure:3164: checking for gcc
configure:3277: checking whether the C compiler (gcc-4.9 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads -Wl,--no-keep-memory -Wl,--stats) works
configure:3293: gcc-4.9 -o conftest -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads -Wl,--no-keep-memory -Wl,--stats conftest.c  1>&5
../configure: 1: eval: gcc-4.9: not found
configure: failed program was:

#line 3288 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"

main(){return(0);}
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.
make[1]: *** [stamps/configure-browser] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»'
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
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It tries to compile with gcc-4.9 on armhf? 

Mike I can sent you the full build logs for the failing architectures.
At least for armhf it uses CC=gcc-4.9.

Regards,
Salvatore