error on Firefox-2.0 compile

polemon · 11-27-2006, 12:29 PM

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 on my Laptop.

I still have Firefox 1.5.0.7 installed and I want to upgrade to Firefox 2.0.
Since I couldn't find it in the repositories, I decided to install it manually.

The Binary version crashes at start, with the well known "Segmentation fault" Error.

So I decidet to compile it myself.

I dowloaded the sources, and made a .mozconfig file with the following lines:

Code:

. $HOME/mozilla/browser/config/mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser

this file is where I unpacked my Firefox sources to (the mozilla/ directory).

Now when I try to build the browser with the following command:

$ make -f client.mk build

The configuration seems to go well in the first place, but eventually I get the following error:

Code:

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [libxpcom_core.so] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bereziak/mozilla/xpcom/build'
make[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bereziak/mozilla/xpcom'
make[2]: *** [tier_2] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bereziak/mozilla'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bereziak/mozilla'
make: *** [build] Error 2

and above that, many thousand lines of errormessages (over 2000).

anyone else had a similar error?

please help!

--polemon

weibullguy · 11-27-2006, 12:48 PM

I'm not an Ubuntu user, but according to Ubuntu's online package directory, Firefox-2.0 is available in the Edgy repos. Don't know if you can use Edgy repos in 6.06. If so, this might be an option.

Alot of the Firefox plug-ins and add-ons for 1.5 won't work with 2.0 yet. I know because I'm using 2.0 on my CLFS system. Just so you know.

In any event, you need to post the actual error message(s). What you posted is purely informational and doesn't really tell anyone what the error was that caused the build to fail. Maybe you should try again and pipe the output to a file that you can scan and pull out the error that started the whole mess.

Code:

make -f client.mk build 2>&1 | tee ../firefox.log

If you're building on a 64-bit system, you'll need to add ac_cv_visibility_pragma=no to the .mozconfig or Firefox won't build. That's also a pretty sparse .mozconfig file.

polemon · 11-28-2006, 09:26 AM

The problem is, i don't think that posting the whole error log is a good idea, since it's upt to an MB of text.
It's not a 64Bit System, I tried building this on.

Interestingly though, Compilation on my 64Bit system went off without a hinch.
I did nearly exactly what i did on my 64bit system, but for some reason it's not working...

craigevil · 11-28-2006, 10:10 AM

Why bother to compile it? Either install from the Edgy repos or just unpack the Mozilla Firefox tarball, either one work quite well.

weibullguy · 11-28-2006, 11:25 AM

As I stated in my previous post, Ubuntu Edgy has Firefox-2.0 in it's repo. craigevil confirms my suspicion that Edgy repos can be used with 6.06. You should use that if you can.

If you want to build Firefox from source, you're going to have to provide the actual error. That's why I recommended dumping the 'make' output to a file that you can browse at your convenience for the actual error at the beginning of the chain. What you posted in your original post contains no useful troubleshooting information.

@craigevil: Cool location! Michigan, I presume?