Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Kevin Puetz]

Hello all, and good news!

Linux/PowerPC is now a working mozilla platform, thanks to the efforts of
Franz Sirl, waterson, and others. I have a release build available at
<http://www.public.iastate.edu/~puetzk/mozilla-ppc-unknown-linux-gnu-M13.tar.gz
> This shouls be appearing on mozilla.org soon, but first I need some testers
to verify that it works correctly on LinuxPPC and other distributions (it was
built on a Debian/PPC system). After first installing it, it needs to be run
as root first so that it can create its component.reg file - after that it
should be fine for all users.

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Re: Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Nelson Abramson]

Kevin Puetz wrote:

> Hello all, and good news!

Excellent news :-)

> Linux/PowerPC is now a working mozilla platform, thanks to the efforts of
> Franz Sirl, waterson, and others. I have a release build available at
> <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~puetzk/mozilla-ppc-unknown-linux-gnu-M13.tar.gz
> > This shouls be appearing on mozilla.org soon, but first I need some testers
> to verify that it works correctly on LinuxPPC and other distributions (it was
> built on a Debian/PPC system). After first installing it, it needs to be run
> as root first so that it can create its component.reg file - after that it
> should be fine for all users.

When I try and run "./mozilla", it starts, and then stops w/ the
error: "./mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libelf.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory "  Obviously this (or atleast seems
like) a dependency error.  I have libelf installed (I rpmed a new copy jik), but
the file definately does NOT exist on my hard drive.  What package should this
file be part of..?  I checked libelf, it doesn't supply it...

TIA
--Nelson Abramson

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Re: Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Hartmut Koptein]

> When I try and run "./mozilla", it starts, and then stops w/ the
> error: "./mozilla-bin: error in loading shared libraries: libelf.so.0: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory "  Obviously this (or atleast seems
> like) a dependency error.  I have libelf installed (I rpmed a new copy jik), but
> the file definately does NOT exist on my hard drive.  What package should this
> file be part of..?  I checked libelf, it doesn't supply it...

For debian:  many .so.X sym-links comes from the -dev packages. Try

  /devel/libelfg0-dev_0.7.0-1.deb

Thnx,


    Hartmut

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Re: Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Nelson Abramson]

ramp@oddjob.uchicago.edu wrote:

> To get the required libelf.so.0 do the following
>
> # cd /usr/lib ; ls -l libelf.*
>     This should show libelf.a
>
> # ld -shared -o libelf.so.0 --whole-archive libelf.a
>     will create the dynamic library needed.
>
> I went beyond this and stuff started happening but seemed to hang.
> Maybe it was doing something?

Excellent suggestion.  After also installing the new libstdc++, it's up and running.
 Beyond excellent :)


--Nelson Abramson


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Re: Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[phandel]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 ramp@oddjob.uchicago.edu wrote:

> To get the required libelf.so.0 do the following
>
> # cd /usr/lib ; ls -l libelf.*
>     This should show libelf.a
>
> # ld -shared -o libelf.so.0 --whole-archive libelf.a
>     will create the dynamic library needed.
>
> I went beyond this and stuff started happening but seemed to hang.
> Maybe it was doing something?

I had to also do this:

(5) adsl 4:15pm /usr/lib> ln -s libstdc++-libc6.1-1.1.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3

...and now it works perfectly, although I am seeing a lot of this error:

nsLayoutHistoryState::GetState, ERROR getting History state for the key

I tried compiling it myself from the source, using:

./configure --disable-mailnews --disable-tests --enable-x11-shm
--enable-optimize --disable-debug --enable-stript-libs --disable-double-buffer

...and replacing -g -O2 with -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer, and it compiled
fine and ran very quickly, although the version number keeps saying
"1999122808" from
dist/bin/chrome/navigator/locale/en-US/navigator.dtd:<!ENTITY
buildId.label "Build ID: 1999122808">
and
xpfe/browser/resources/locale/en-US/navigator.dtd:<!ENTITY  buildId.label
"Build ID: 1999122808">
although I was careful to grab the latest nightly source tarball and then
later the official M13 source tarball ... any ideas?


Thanks,
Peter

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phandel@cise.ufl.edu      great ... to receive a mark [smart card?] on his
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Re: Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Nelson Abramson]

phandel@cise.ufl.edu wrote:

>
> I had to also do this:
>
> (5) adsl 4:15pm /usr/lib> ln -s libstdc++-libc6.1-1.1.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3
>
> ...and now it works perfectly, although I am seeing a lot of this error:
>
> nsLayoutHistoryState::GetState, ERROR getting History state for the key
>

Hmm...maybe you should get the new libstdc++ instead of faking the link? :-)


HTH
--Nelson Abramson


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Re: Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[ramp]

It still seems to wait forever at
  	nNCL: registering deferred (0)

Maybe my machine is too slow (7200/90 with 16MB)???

- Ramprasad

Kevin: I tried your new libelfs too

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 phandel@cise.ufl.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 ramp@oddjob.uchicago.edu wrote:
>
> > To get the required libelf.so.0 do the following
> >
> > # cd /usr/lib ; ls -l libelf.*
> >     This should show libelf.a
> >
> > # ld -shared -o libelf.so.0 --whole-archive libelf.a
> >     will create the dynamic library needed.
> >
> > I went beyond this and stuff started happening but seemed to hang.
> > Maybe it was doing something?
>
> I had to also do this:
>
> (5) adsl 4:15pm /usr/lib> ln -s libstdc++-libc6.1-1.1.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3
>
> ...and now it works perfectly, although I am seeing a lot of this error:
>
> nsLayoutHistoryState::GetState, ERROR getting History state for the key
>
> I tried compiling it myself from the source, using:
>
> ./configure --disable-mailnews --disable-tests --enable-x11-shm
> --enable-optimize --disable-debug --enable-stript-libs --disable-double-buffer
>
> ...and replacing -g -O2 with -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer, and it compiled
> fine and ran very quickly, although the version number keeps saying
> "1999122808" from
> dist/bin/chrome/navigator/locale/en-US/navigator.dtd:<!ENTITY
> buildId.label "Build ID: 1999122808">
> and
> xpfe/browser/resources/locale/en-US/navigator.dtd:<!ENTITY  buildId.label
> "Build ID: 1999122808">
> although I was careful to grab the latest nightly source tarball and then
> later the official M13 source tarball ... any ideas?

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Re: Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Greg Noel]

phandel@cise.ufl.edu wrote:
>nsLayoutHistoryState::GetState, ERROR getting History state for the key

Known bug.  Mostly harmless.  Ignore it.  (Hey, this is still alpha-level
software; don't be surprised at a few bugs.)

Hope this helps,
-- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru

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Re: Updated Mozilla M13 Release Build Available

[Kevin Puetz]

In response to the problems that some of you had with my Mozilla M13 build,
here is an updated one. If there are no problems with it now, it will be
submitted and I will announce when the mozilla.org tarball is up to date.

same place as last time, I just updated the file <http://www.public.iastate.edu
/~puetzk/>

You will need to go to ftp.linuxppc.com/linuxppc-1999/software/updates and get
libstdc++-2.10.0 (and, of course, any dependencies it has). You should not
need to use the funky ld-hack to make libelf.so anymore - if you did so,
delete it. You should not need to run this version as root before running it
as a normal user.

If anyone could verify that this runs fine, please email me so that I can get
mozilla.org's FTP site up to date.

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