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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