247035 - firefox 0.9: linux system requirements specify wrong minimum glibc and gtk+ version

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Rainer Bawidamann]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.51 (X11; Linux i686; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9/firefox-0.9-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

the firefox 0.9 binary for Linux is compiled against Glibc 2.3 while the
system requirements document says it needs Glibc 2.2.

I would appreciate if you could provide binaries compiled against glibc 2.2
(but I understand if you don't want to spend the effort for a beta version).
If not please describe on the web page that the binary is compiled against
Glibc 2.3 (thus i won't run on Debian stable/3.0/woody).

Thanks, Rainer

PS: The -installer version might have the same problem: The installer starts up,
but fails with an error that it cannot find/run a file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Download binary for firefox 0.9/Linux. Run on Debian stable/3.0.
Actual Results:  
error message:
./firefox-bin: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by .
/firefox-bin)

Comment 1

[Frank Weberskirch]

I observed the same problem with firefox release 0.9 and the current nightly
(27-Jun-2004) on a SuSE 8.1 machine which also has Glibc 2.2 (not 2.3).

The same happened some months ago with mozilla and thunderbird builds, see Bug
#227105

Comment 2

[Rainer Bawidamann]

Update: firefox 0.9.1 requires GLIBC 2.3.2

Could you please either build firefox on a host with GLIBC 2.2 or mention in the 
release notes/announcement that the pre-built images require GLIBC 2.3? Thanks.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

The system requirements also say "gtk+ - 1.2.0 ( 1.2.5 or greater preferred)" is
required but the binary distributions seem to need gtk+ 2.x at least. 

Changing the summary to be more general. 

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

BTW the README.txt file that comes with the tar.gz distribution is wrong too. 

Comment 5

[Rainer Bawidamann]

The "system requirements" page now lists glibc 2.3 and gtk 2.0.

I think this bug can be closed.

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Can you confirm that all cases of this has been fixed? README.txt and the system
requirements page have been mentioned.

If so, please mark as WORKSFORME.

Comment 7

[Steffen Wilberg]

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/#requirements links to
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html, which mentions
glibc 2.3.2 and gtk+2.0.

README.txt has been stripped down:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/locales/en-US/README.txt

-> WFM.

Comment 8

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

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