[CentOS] Firefox 60.0.1.0 ESR Progress?

Wed Jul 11 18:36:35 UTC 2018
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 07/11/2018 08:28 AM, Phil Wyett wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-07-11 at 06:31 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 07/09/2018 09:38 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 07/06/2018 10:30 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>> On 07/05/2018 02:27 PM, Phil Wyett wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 06:16 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>>>> On 07/03/2018 09:04 AM, Sean wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>>> OK guys .. Firefox 60 is going to take some time .. likely more for
>>>>>> CentOS-6 than CentOS-7.
>>>>>> They both (C6 and C7 versions) require many non OS tools to build.
>>>>>> For CentOS-7 .. we need the rust-toolset, llvm-toolset, and
>>>>>> devtoolset-7, to get the firefox to build.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> My current issue building the latest firefox is the required rust
>>>>> version.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the [sclo-rh] section of the epel-7 mock config I change line:
>>>>>
>>>>> includepkgs=devtoolset*
>>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>>
>>>>> includepkgs=devtoolset* llvm-toolset* rust-toolset*
>>>>>
>>>>> Current rust is 1.20 and configure will stop asking for 1.24.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> indeed .. that is one issue.  I am working on it .. we also have to do
>>>> i386 as that is released in the base OS .. so I have to get a working
>>>> devtoolset-7 for i386, ppc64, ppc as well .. and the latest rust and the
>>>> latest llvm .. for i386, x86_64, ppc64le, ppc64, ppc, aarch64, armhfp
>>>> .. that is for C&
>>>>
>>>> I would just do x86_64 and i386 first, then the rest .. BUT .. since I
>>>> have to bootstrap the devtoolket and llvm and rust on c7 for i386 anyway
>>>> .. also doig ti for the other arches does nto really add any more time
>>>> as the compiles are in parallel on different machines.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully for C7 I will have updates by Monday
>>>>
>>>> For C6 .. I am going to need to rework rust, etc. .. that will take
>>>> longer  .. rust requires python27 not python26 .. so lots of patches are
>>>> going to be req'd for that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is a status update ..
>>>
>>> I now have the c7-devtoolkit-7 built for all arches (i386, x86_64,
>>> armhfp, aarch64, ppc64le, ppc64, ppc).
>>>
>>> I now have the c6-devtoolkit-7 built for all arches (i386. x86_64).
>>>
>>> I am in the process of building the latest llvm-toolkit and the
>>> rust-toolkit for CentOS 7 on all arches.  (Both needed for firefox-60 on c7)
>>>
>>> I am in the process of figuring out all the changes needed to build the
>>> rust-toolkit for CentOS-6 as there is no released source code with the
>>> proper patches yet .. and it needs to be modified to build with the
>>> python used in EL6.
>>>
>>> So, hopefully very soon we will have all the required kits to build
>>> firefox for CentOS-7 .. CentOS-6 may be a bit longer.
>>>
> 
>> Status currently is that I have a version built for CentOS-7 x86_64.
> 
>> I am currently still building the require toolsets for i386 as
>> firefox.i686 is released as a multilib package in the x86_64 repo.
> 
>> So, I can't release the x86_64 package without the i686 one.
> 
>> You can download the x86_64 package manually if you don't want to wait
>> .. but I should have them both (i686 and x86_64) for CentOS-7 later today.
> 
> 
> The release of firefox will also include release of the scl toolsets for
> developers who modify and build for own needs?

The SCL SIG releases SCLs and devtool sets // they are not part of the
OS, so no signed pieces will be released.

I could put them on buildlogs for the el7 ones if there is interest.


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