Re: Bug#878284: mozjs52: FTBFS on mips: thousands of TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 at 07:57:45 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> My changes in pkg-gnome git are not believed to be sufficient: in
> addition to turning off the JIT, Adrian says we need to fix atomic
> operations to not use jit/none/AtomicOperations-none.h. (It isn't
> at all clear to me why disabling the JIT has any effect on the atomic
> operations used, but that's how it's written...)

This looks like a promising approach:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/smcv/mozjs52.git/log/?h=wip/mips
and will also get us a clean #error on unsupported architectures,
instead of a (non-functional?) binary with atomic operations that
MOZ_CRASH(), which seems like a good thing.

    smcv