On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:49:52 +1100 Wayne Blaszczyk <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/11/11 00:33, DJ Lucas wrote: > > On 11/09/2011 06:07 PM, Jeremy Henty wrote: > >> > >> Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >>> Andrew Benton wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Yes, with wget I downloaded > >>>> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/8.0/source/firefox-8.0.source.tar.bz2 > >>>> It compiled on a 3.1 kernel without patching. > >>> > >>> I'd appreciate knowing the instructions you used. I can't do it yet > >>> because I haven't put X on my development system yet. > >> > >> I'm not the person you replied to, but here are my notes on > >> Firefox-[78]* anyway... > >> > >> You must configure cairo with --enable-tee . > >> > >> If you haven't installed yasm then you must disable webm video. > >> > >> Jeremy > > > > Guys, just in case you are not aware, we should probably consider using > > external npapi. We can of course, fix anything that is using the > > incorrect version scheme, but looking to the future, that might be a bit > > of work (OpenJDK specifically will be a PITA, don't know about other > > open source plug-ins). > > > > -- DJ Lucas > > > > > I am having problems with Firefox 8 myself. > I've built xulrunner and firefox separately with no problems, but when I > try to execute firefox, it comes back with the following message: > Could not read application.ini > Googling comes up with a lot of hits, but no real solutions. > > Strace produces the following: > mmap(0x7f5a2c600000, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f5a2c600000 > stat("/usr/local/bin/firefox", 0x7fff5744a408) = -1 ENOENT (No such file > or directory) > stat("/bin/firefox", 0x7fff5744a408) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > stat("/usr/bin/firefox", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=65128, ...}) = 0 > lstat("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 > lstat("/usr/bin", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=36864, ...}) = 0 > access("/usr/bin/xulrunner/libxpcom.so", R_OK) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a > directory) > open("/usr/bin/application.ini", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or > directory) > write(2, "Could not read application.ini\n", 31Could not read > application.ini > ) = 31 > exit_group(1) > > Not sure why it would be checking /usr/bin/xulrunner/libxpcom.so since > /usr/bin/xulrunner is a symbolic link to a script. > Anyway copying the application.ini file to /usr/bin, just takes it to > the next problem: > Could not find the Mozilla runtime. > It seems to me that it is confusing /usr/lib with /usr/bin ? > The mozconfig I used is pretty much the same as what is current in the > BLFS book with slight alterations. > > Any pointers to what the problem might be? I don't install xulrunner so I can't help with the detail of your problem, however, try reading the script that /usr/bin/xulrunner is pointing to. It's probably setting some paths and is confused because of the symbolic link. Look for things like MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
