259888 - requires libstdc++5 though libstdc++6 is installed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Felix Miata]

On Mandrake 10.1 Community,
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10/firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz.
runs fine with libstdc++5 installed alongside libstdc++6. After successfully
testing it, I did 'rpm -e -nodeps libstdc++5', and attempted to start this same
build.  This resulted in a file not found error for shared library
libstd++.so.5. This shared lib failure matches my recollection of the behavior
attempting to run mozilla.org 0.9.x builds on Mandrake 10.1 beta several weeks
ago. According to Mike Connor, FF should run with newer than libstdc++5 libs
only installed. With only libstdc++6 installed, the 1.0RC build supplied by
Mandrake works fine.

(the above discovered as a consequence of bug 259544 and subsequent moznet
discussion)

Comment 1

[Sean Umphlet (nosebleed)]

about:buildconfig (requested by Mike Connor)

Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -pedantic -pthread -pipe
c++ 	gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1) 	-fno-rtti
-fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
-Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor
-Wno-long-long -pedantic -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews
--enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth
--enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile
--disable-profilesharing --disable-debug '--enable-optimize=-Os -freorder-blocks
-fno-reorder-functions -gstabs+' --disable-tests --enable-official-branding
--enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 --enable-static
--disable-shared 

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: about:buildconfig for mozilla-firefox-0.10-1mdk

Comment 3

[David G King]

Just hit this when installing a downloading Firefox v1.0 to a new install of
Fedora Core 3.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

FC3 users can use the Fedora RPM, which might be in the "official" places but
can be found right now at
http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/rawhide/mozilla.org/firefox-1.0-0.i386.rpm

Comment 5

[Allen Stoughton]

My experience with this problem is when running the firefox installer,
not using an rpm.  I only have libstdc++.so.6 installed, and the installer
fails, saying that libstdc++.so.5 is required.  It would be nice to
change the system requirements to say that exactly libstdc++.5 is
required, rather than at least .5.  Also, if there is a workaround, it
would be nice to advertise it.

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

Mandrake has deleted all Mozilla packages except Firefox from its 10.2 beta. I
tried to run the current trunk on it, and have the exact same problem. -> core

Mandrake has also deleted the mozilla build environment package. -> major

# rpm -qa | grep libstd
libstdc++6-3.4.3-3mdk

Comment 7

[Felix Miata]

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13676 is bug I filed on Mandrake's
bugzilla because of this bug.

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I thought this was addressed a while back, but I guess not. 
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html was updated to
reflect this, we have to link against one or the other, not both.

Until further notice, we'll link against libstdc++5.  If you want Firefox to run
on newer distros that don't ship this, use the distro's RPM, install libstdc++5,
or roll your own builds.

Comment 9

[Felix Miata]

That was done before discovery this applied to Seamonkey as well. Do we reopen,
or than the requirements page for Mozilla to match Firefox?

Comment 10

[Felix Miata]

http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/sysreq.html updated with doctor to
version 1.19

Comment 11

[cls]

*** Bug 298474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 300785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[zug_treno]

*** Bug 313809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 320675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Felix Miata]

*** Bug 354409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***