Re: pkg/60266 (firefox140: Build fails with a catastrophic number of build errors)

The following reply was made to PR pkg/60266; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/60266 (firefox140: Build fails with a catastrophic number
 of build errors)
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 21:09:02 -0400

 There must be something different about the environment here, as this
 certainly does successfully build on recent NetBSD releases. For
 example, the TNF build infrastructure for 11.0 using the 2026Q1 branch
 has generated a package for 140.10.2:
 
 https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/x86_64/11.0_2026Q1/All/fi=
 refox140-140.10.2.tgz
 
 It also builds on relatively recent NetBSD 11.99.5/amd64, as I'm
 running it there right now.
 
 The output provided doesn't seem too helpful. What's needed is the
 original error that has occurred. To capture a full build log, one can
 simply use script(1) to save to a file, e.g.,
 
 script build.log
 make
 exit (to stop the script)
 
 Then either share the complete log somewhere (attaching to GNATS
 wouldn't work well), or, find the spot where the errors first appear
 (using a text editor, perhaps).
 
 It would also help to know more about the underlying environment, e.g.,
 if there are any non-standard pkgsrc settings.
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave
 
 PS There's nothing "catastrophic" about this, it's simply a build
 failure where parsing has become troubled, so the compiler emits a
 bunch of errors as it progresses through a (complex) file.