256382 - Darwin 7 builds crash on startup

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Yves de Champlain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; fr-ca) AppleWebKit/125.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9
Build Identifier: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/src/

Mozilla built on Darwin 7 crashes at startup, even before building a stack (gdb core: no stack).  Mozilla 
built on MacOSX 10.3 will not run on Darwin OS because it links to the CoreServices framework which is 
proprietary and MacOSX only. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Yves de Champlain]

PS : I also tried mozilla-1.7.2 on OpenDarwin-7.2.1 and it crashed at startup too.
I also tried various configurations.

Comment 2

[cls]

MacOSX builds require CoreServices and I don't believe that's going to change
for the functionality required.  

When building on Darwin 7, what options are you using?  Please attach the
configure output of the build.

Comment 3

[Yves de Champlain]

Attachment: config.log for mozilla 1.7.2 on darwin 7.2.1

./configure --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --mandir=${prefix}/share/man \
		--enable-optimize --enable-crypto --enable-calendar

Comment 4

[cls]

I meant the actual ouptut of the configure command. config.log is a bit harder
to follow.  

Does a debug build (--disable-optimize --enable-debug) exhibit the same crash
w/o a stack behavior?

Comment 5

[Yves de Champlain]

Attachment: configure output

Comment 6

[Yves de Champlain]

Attachment: what I tried in gdb

Note that I am not very good with gdb (if you have not guessed yet)

Comment 7

[Yves de Champlain]

The configure output and gdb output are both with --disable-optimize and
--enable-debug.  I also have the whole build output if you want (5 Mb)

Comment 8

[cls]

I see the gdb attempt is after doing a 'make install'.  You'll need to run gdb
with the proper library paths set for that.  Just try `./mozilla -g` .  Also,
have you tried running mozilla from dist/ ?  

cd dist/bin && ./mozilla

Comment 9

[Yves de Champlain]

./mozilla -g ! thanks for that one

The program gets through a bunch of _dyld_* functions
and then seems to crash in crt.c which is referenced in
/usr/src/APPLE... (probably crt2.o)

So I tried to build it with FSF gcc-3.4.0 but the build does not
get passed 
nsIConsoleListener.idl
../../dist/bin/xpidl -m header -w -I. -I../../dist/idl -o
_xpidlgen/nsIConsoleListener nsIConsoleListener.idl
Assertion failed: state->tree, file xpidl_idl.c, line 60

Comment 10

[Yves de Champlain]

note that for FSF gcc, I had to quickly remove -fPascal-strings and -Wmost since
thos flags were not recognized.  Maybe it is related with the build failure.

Comment 11

[cls]

Can you attach the complete stack trace from the './mozilla -g' debug run?

Comment 12

[Yves de Champlain]

Attachment: gdb.log with backtrace

Comment 13

[cls]

bryner, any ideas what's going on here with gdb?

Comment 14

[Yves de Champlain]

Could someone point me from which version did mozilla begin to include
CoreServices ?  I know 1.0.0 does not show this problem.

Comment 15

[cls]

Mozilla 1.0.0 doesn't build on Darwin/OSX, either, iirc.  We didn't officially
start supporting Darwin/OSX until Mozilla 1.3 or so and afaik, we've always
required CoreServices.  We didn't start supporting non-OSX darin builds until
some time after that (moz1.5?).  

There is a related bug (bug #249028) to make non-OSX darwin builds not require
CoreServices as they currently do.

Comment 16

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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