201790 - Galeon installation crashes because of serious flaw in string/nsCharTraits.h

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: GTK Widget, defect)

Description

[Deleted User]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030412
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030412

Here is the error mesg:

In file included from /opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsAString.h:36,
                 from /opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsString2.h:54,
                 from /opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsString.h:54,
                 from BaseProtocolHandler.h:24,
                 from BaseProtocolHandler.cpp:24:
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:383: ISO C++ forbids
   declaration of `difference_type' with no type
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:383: `::difference_type
   ' is not a valid declarator
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:383: parse error before
   `;' token
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:409: ISO C++ forbids
   declaration of `value_type' with no type
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:409: `::value_type' is
   not a valid declarator
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:409: parse error before
   `*' token
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:417: type specifier
   omitted for parameter `difference_type'
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:417: parse error before
   `)' token
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:418: ISO C++ forbids
   defining types within return type
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:418: two or more data
   types in declaration of `advance'
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:418: semicolon missing
   after declaration of `struct nsCharSourceTraits<InputIterator>'
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:421: parse error before
   `}' token
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:473: non-template type
   `nsCharSourceTraits' used as a template
/opt/mozilla/include/mozilla-1.4a/string/nsCharTraits.h:474: confused by earlier
errors, bailing out
make[2]: *** [BaseProtocolHandler.lo] Fehler 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/workspace/software/gnome/GNOME2.3/galeon-1.3.3/mozilla'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/workspace/software/gnome/GNOME2.3/galeon-1.3.3'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download Galeon 1.3.3
2. Start installation
3. Wait and see

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

which compiler ?

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Did you pull a new mozilla without rerunning configure?  Is mozilla-config.h
being included as part of the build process?

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Great.  Are we requiring mozilla-config.h now?

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

As far as I know we've always required mozilla-config.h.  We use autoconf to
test for tons of compiler bugs and system features.  But it's possible that some
things might have worked without it on some platforms in the past.

Comment 5

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

The information provided by mozilla-config.h/mozilla-config has always been
required (ie, embeddors needed to set XP_PC or XP_UNIX to build correctly).  We
made mozilla-config.h the sanctioned method to get these defines in bug 163929
and made mozilla-config.h an explicit dependency of nscore.h in bug 200574.

Comment 6

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

This bug is pretty old. Is the problem solved by now?

pi

Comment 7

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Marking WORKSFORME due to age, and I don't think it's an issue anymore.