On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 12/12/2012 23:17, Walter Hurry wrote: >> That looks like a useful feature. But why is it saying this? >> >> pkg: (firefox-17.0.1,1) shared library libxpcom.so not found >> pkg: (firefox-17.0.1,1) shared library libmozalloc.so not found >> (lots more output snipped) >> >> $ locate libxpcom.so >> /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so >> $ locate libmozalloc.so >> /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so >> $ file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so >> /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, >> version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, stripped >> $ file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so >> /usr/local/lib/firefox/libmozalloc.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, >> x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, stripped >> $ > > Ah -- that would be a bug. At a guess, it's not finding the shlibs > because they're in a location not on the usual path and there's > something odd about the RPATH settings in the binaries. I shall > investigate further. > This same issue with firefox was reported in this PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131237 And included a simple fix which was rejected by the firefox maintainer due to firefox sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime to find its share libraries. -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
