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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011113 Description of problem: regxpcom not found where expected and numerous broken links to .so libraries in /var are created, eg /var/tmp/mozilla-root/usr/lib/mozilla/libcaps.so -> ../../../caps/src/libcaps.so Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-0.9.6-0.src.rpm, mozilla-0.9.7-0.src.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile from source 2. 3. Actual Results: see above Expected Results: successful compile Additional info: 1. Latest successful compile 0.9.5-2 2. Same problems with both gcc-2.96.101.9 and gcc-3.1-0.10 3. regexpcom is found at /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/mozilla/dist/bin/regxpcom, not installed to /var: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/var/tmp/mozilla-root/usr/lib/mozilla:/var/tmp/mozilla-root/usr/lib/mozilla/.. ++ pwd +MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/var/tmp/mozilla-root/usr/lib/mozilla + ./regxpcom /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65642: ./regxpcom: No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65642 (%install) 4. Libraries are not found in /var: /var/tmp/mozilla-root/usr/lib/mozilla/libpcaps.so is a broken link to ../../../src/libpcaps.so The files are built but not installed from the BUILD directory.
Tracked this down further, the script mozilla-copy-package-files.sh use an option _not_ to follow symbolic links. This option is not reversed by using -L to cp, at least for the cp version in fileutils-4.1.3-1. COPY expands to 'cp -L' (or maybe 'cp', nevertheless removing -P works) - $COPY -vrP ${i} ${TARGET_DIR} + $COPY -vr ${i} ${TARGET_DIR} with this change files are installed, not the links themselves. Of course new problems show up: now /var/tmp/mozilla-root/usr/lib/mozilla/regxpcom is reporting an unresolved external(bothe gcc-3.1 and gcc-2.96): ./regxpcom: relocation error: ./regxpcom: undefined symbol: NS_InitXPCOM2 If you do an ldd on regexpcom it is linked to the _previously_ installed version of mozilla!! ldd ./regxpcom libxpcom.so => /usr/lib/libxpcom.so (0x4002d000) libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x40115000) libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x40119000) libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x4011e000) rpm -qf /usr/lib/libxpcom.so mozilla-0.9.5-2 I thought the libraries should be natively linked. What would happen if mozilla-0.9.5-2 was not installed? Everything OK then??
Ancient bug report. Works here.