117087 - startup script doesn't work if you call it in inapropriate way

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Wilfried Goesgens]

you type '/usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh' and it says ./ bla not found.
it may be fixed if you change the lines to 
MOZ_APPRUNNER_NAME="${MOZ_DIST_BIN}/mozilla-bin"
MOZ_VIEWER_NAME="${MOZ_DIST_BIN}/viewer"

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

You should be running /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla, not run-mozilla.sh, if I 
recall correctly.

Comment 2

[Wilfried Goesgens]

whats the script then for anyway?
If it's there in the standard distribution, it should work in any case.

Comment 3

[timeless]

it's used to setup the environment.

eg, ./run-mozilla.sh ./xpcshell, or ./run-mozilla.sh ./viewer or ./run-
mozilla.sh ./mozilla-bin or ... or ./run-mozilla.sh `which ldd` ./mozilla-bin

if we didn't distribute the file, then ./mozilla wouldn't work.  should we 
rename the file ./.run-mozilla.sh so some clever sap would decide that it's an 
unimportant file and zap it and then complain when nothing worked.

Comment 4

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

I think that hiding the script at this point would cause more problems at this
point than it would solve as people are routinely directed to run
'/blah/run-mozilla.sh /blah/regxpcom' to fix registry problems.  The script is
not meant to be installed in a public directory and no distribution that I know
of does so.  Use the 'mozilla' script instead to start mozilla. Marking invalid.

Comment 5

[Wilfried Goesgens]

does changing the script like I suggested break something?
does /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh regxpcom
work? else what one should do s.th. like 
if test -n "$1"; then 
  if there are '/'s 
    do the strings like it's now
   else
     do add a a path to it if $1 doesn't exist
   fi
else
  do the strings like I suggested.
fi

Comment 6

[Jon Granrose]

verified invalid.

Comment 7

[sgtphou]

I have successfully built Jan 07 2002 CVS on linux, but I am getting the same
problems.

What is the solution? It doesn't seem to have been made clear here.

# ./mozilla
/usr/bin/mozilla-cvs/dist/bin/run-mozilla.sh: line 72:  4546 Segmentation
fault      $prog ${1+"$@"}

Line 72 of run-mozilla.sh has nothing at all in it.

Comment 8

[sgtphou]

Bug 118783 might be related to this.

Comment 9

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Wilfried, I don't know if your proposed changes would break anything but I don't
really have time to test it right now.  Using the mozilla script is the proper
way to launch the application in any case.

sgtphou, the problem that you are seeing is not related to this bug report. 
Almost anytime that the program segfaults when run from a shell script, it will
spit out the message that you saw.  By itself, the message isn't helpful in
tracking problems.