On 22/11/11 11:49, Wayne Blaszczyk 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? > Thanks, > Wayne. > > > Sounds like you need to put in a symbolic link from /usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/lib/firefox/firefox or similar, I believe this was missing in 8.0, but fixed in 8.0.1
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