Bug#1109861: thunderbird: Please build with gcc and g++ on ppc64

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <175343110220.3971577.13067463319963841073.reportbug__9579.08364232338$1753431209$gmane$org@login1.physik.fu-berlin.de>
Source: thunderbird
Version: 1:128.13.0esr-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: ppc64
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Hi,

on ppc64, Thunderbird currently fails to build from source [1] due to an
upstream bug in the PowerPC backend in LLVM [2].

Could you override CC and CXX so Thunderbird is built with GCC instead of
Clang for the time being?

--- debian/rules.orig   2025-07-25 01:09:59.688831332 -0700
+++ debian/rules        2025-07-25 00:39:01.489229045 -0700
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
        CFLAGS += -DSQLITE_BYTEORDER=1234
 endif
 
+ifneq (,$(filter ppc64,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
+       CC := gcc
+       CXX := g++
+endif
+
 # Reduce memory usage of the linker at the expense of processing time
 # This should help on lower-end architectures like arm and mips, which
 # spend an immense amount of time swapping.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=thunderbird&arch=ppc64&ver=1%3A128.13.0esr-1&stamp=1753381391&raw=0
> [2] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/110753

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/110753

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thunderbird-override-clang.diff (text/plain, 440 B)
--- debian/rules.orig	2025-07-25 01:09:59.688831332 -0700
+++ debian/rules	2025-07-25 00:39:01.489229045 -0700
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
 	CFLAGS += -DSQLITE_BYTEORDER=1234
 endif
 
+ifneq (,$(filter ppc64,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
+	CC := gcc
+	CXX := g++
+endif
+
 # Reduce memory usage of the linker at the expense of processing time
 # This should help on lower-end architectures like arm and mips, which
 # spend an immense amount of time swapping.
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