21117 - need to fix the build process on AIX to handle gtk

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Jim Dunn]

On AIX, there is a problem with linking in static libraries to
more than one shared object.  What ends up happening is multiple
copies of the data from the static library.  Right now the gtk
libraries are linked into gfx/src/gtk widget/src/gtk
webshell/tests/viewer & xpfe/bootstrap.

So what would be better is to link the gtk libraries into a
shared object and then modify TK_LIBS to point to that shared
object.

To Make the shared library...
/usr/ibmcxx/bin/makeC++SharedLib_r -p1 -brtl -bso -o libshared_gtk.so
/usr/wpc/lib/libgtk.a /usr/wpc/lib/libgdk.a /usr/wpc/lib/libgmodule.a
/usr/wpc/lib/libglib.a  -lXext -lX11 -lm

config/autoconf.mk
TK_LIBS = -L$(DIST)/bin -lshared_gtk -lXext -lX11 -lm

Or we could just build it once and put it in /usr/wpc/lib and modify
/"usr/wpc/bin/gtk-config --libs" to dump out
          -L$(DIST)/bin -lshared_gtk -lXext -lX11 -lm

Comment 1

[Jim Dunn]

To fix this I did the following:

To Make the shared library...
/usr/ibmcxx/bin/makeC++SharedLib_r -p1 -brtl -bso -o libshared_gtk.so
/usr/wpc/lib/libgtk.a /usr/wpc/lib/libgdk.a /usr/wpc/lib/libgmodule.a
/usr/wpc/lib/libglib.a  -lXext -lX11 -lm

And then modify gtk-config --libs to return
        -L$(DIST)/bin -lshared_gtk -lXext -lX11 -lm

on our machines that is in /usr/wpc/bin/gtk-config

Comment 2

[Jim Dunn]

*** Bug 18970 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/a6650fa0773a
[fenix] Issue https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/21117 - Modify layout for items displayed under "Recently Visited" in the HomeScreen to follow latest UX designs