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Re: Thunderbird build failure .. [Gone away]
On 01/01/2023 21:05, Wol wrote:
> On 01/01/2023 20:08, cal wrote:
>> FWIW, Thunderbird builds fine with GCC on my machine -- I'm unsure of
>> your reasons for setting your Portage compiler to clang, but you may
>> wish to use a package.env override to build Thunderbird with GCC as a
>> workaround until the problem can be fixed upstream.
>
> I don't know anything about clang ... it must be the default ...
>
> I thought part of Firefox/Thunderbird was written in Rust, so I assumed
> it was built with llvm as a matter of course.
>
> I'll just wait for it to sort itself out.
>
Just to say it's finally sorted itself out without me doing anything,
all the while causing random failures in the build chain ie I think
Firefox and LLVM all failed along the way ...

Cheers,
Wol