216403 - Unable to start Mozilla after compile

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[Partha Bagchi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.5 alpha

When I start mozilla from where I compiled it I get the following message:
/home/downloads/mozilla/source/mozilla/dist/bin/mozilla-bin: relocation error:
/home/downloads/mozilla/source/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libmail.so: undefined
symbol: _ZN18nsMsgContentPolicyC1Ev



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download alpha source
2. Compile after generating .mozconfig
3. start from dist/bin location

Actual Results:  
I got the above detailed error

Expected Results:  
mozilla should start.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you compiled it in the same location as an older build (untar the source in
the same directory) ?

doesn't block development

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

libmail.so is not part of Seamonkey.  Did you try to build Thunderbird?  If you
switch build options like that, you need to

% gmake -f client.mk distclean

before you rebuild.

Comment 3

[Partha Bagchi]

I deleted the whole directory and started from scratch. I then recreated
.mozconfig and pulled the source from CVS with the following option:

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_DATE="16 Aug 2003 17:04 PST"

The build went fine, but I had the same problem. I noticed that since the
problem was related to libmail (which I found in ../mailnews/build), I re-edited
my .mozconfig and commented out the following line:

ac_add_options --enable-static-mail

Then, I did a distclean and rebuilt mozilla. Then the build went fine and I was
able to run mozilla. I would say the problem maybe with the static-mail option?

In anycase, saying that "Nobody else has this problem but you" is hardly helpful
and not very conducive to people wanting to get involved.

Thanks,
Partha
 

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

--enable-static-mail turns on part of the thunderbird build process.  I'm not
sure of the intended effect of turning it on manually, but it's possible you got it.

If you want a standalone mail client, build thunderbird outright.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

resolving INVALID
FYI: relevant build options are completely different now