fc 3 and can't run mozilla or firefox
Richard Hubbell
richard.hubbell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 23:27:52 UTC 2005
I found a reason and I am rebuilding firefox myself on FC3.
Anyone from redhat read this stuff?
I wonder why this problem shows up, is it because glibc was built
with the offending gcc?
Here's the gcc bug:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17560
Is there a fix in some fedora updates or something?
Richard
If you are having problems building firefox 1.0 then try this patch:
(the patch can be found here
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=166362)
--- nsprpub/pr/src/misc/Makefile.in.foo Wed Jun 11 15:42:57 2003
+++ nsprpub/pr/src/misc/Makefile.in Wed Jun 11 15:42:49 2003
@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@
include $(topsrcdir)/config/rules.mk
+NONOPT_CFLAGS=$(filter-out -O%, $(CFLAGS))
+
+ifeq ($(OS_ARCH),Linux)
+$(OBJDIR)/prdtoa.$(OBJ_SUFFIX): prdtoa.c
+ @$(MAKE_OBJDIR)
+ $(CC) -o $@ -c $(NONOPT_CFLAGS) -ffloat-store $<
+endif
+
#
# Generate prerr.h, prerr.c, and prerr.properties from prerr.et.
#
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:01:40 -0800, Richard Hubbell
<richard.hubbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a very plain fc3 system, no KDE or Gnome, just xdm and xfce.
> When I try to run mozilla or firefox they both sigsegv. Running in gdb
> tells me that firefox dies at JS_dtostr and mozilla dies at PR_dtoa
>
> They seem to be the same symptom. Any ideas?
>
> I tried as root also just in case it was a permissions problem.
>
> Am I missing some library or something like that?
>
> Richard
>
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