These days I began to develop a new feature to Google Chromium and fix some ones (certain problems in Chromium gets me angry…very angry!!! =P).
I resolved to write this post because in the official build guide there is not mention how to workaround the problem with gcc-4.4 and the WebKit bug (you can see it here).
The problem resides in the file:
$CHROMIUM_ROOT/src/third_party/WebKit/WebCore/WebCore.gyp/webcore.target.mk
If you don’t apply this patch you will see various erroneous lines saying that there are undefined references into file libwebcore.a as these bellow:
undefined reference to findColor
undefined reference to findEntity
undefined reference to findValue
Pay attention: you have to apply the patch after synchronize your code with the remote repository and run the command “gclient runhooks –force” inside $CHROMIUM_ROOT/src or else the changes will be overwritten!
To apply the patch, just do it:
cd $CHROMIUM_ROOT
patch -p0 < /path/to/patch.doc
Some informations:
- ccache statistics:
- time compilation:
~ 1h56m08s
- target machine:
2.6.32-gentoo-r4-fx #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz
gcc 4.4.3 / ccache 2.4
Extra informations:
- if you desire compile the code with ccache just change the Makefile inside $CHROMIUM_ROOT/src
- all object code and binaries are put into directory $CHROMIUM_ROOT/src/out, if you wanna run a “make distclean” just remove this directory…this Makefile (from h3ll) does not have a distclean target!!!
In the next article I will explain how to compile Google Chromium with LLVM/Clang 
