26059 - mozilla M13 won't run on Linux/PPC

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect, P3)

Description

[stevenj]

I successfully compiled Mozilla M13 from the source .tar.gz on my Macintosh
PowerBook G3 (1999) laptop running LinuxPPC R4, using gcc 2.95.2.  However, the
program won't run.

When I try to run dist/bin/mozilla, I get the following output:

MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin
       SHLIB_PATH=/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin
          LIBPATH=/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./mozilla-bin
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering succeeded
nNCL: registering deferred (0)
nsUnixToolkitService: Using 'gtk' for the Widget Toolkit.
nsUnixToolkitService: Using 'gtk' for the Gfx Toolkit.
NS_SetupRegistry() MOZ_TOOLKIT=gtk, WIDGET_DLL=libwidget_gtk.so,
GFX_DLL=libgfx_gtk.so
initialized appshell
GFX: dpi=96 t2p=0.0666667 p2t=15 depth=32
WEBSHELL+ = 1
**************************************************
nsNativeComponentLoader:
GetFactory(/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libraptorhtmlpars.so)
Load FAILED with error:
/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libraptorhtmlpars.so:
R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range
**************************************************
**************************************************
nsNativeComponentLoader:
GetFactory(/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libraptorhtmlpars.so)
Load FAILED with error:
/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libraptorhtmlpars.so:
R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range
**************************************************
**************************************************
nsNativeComponentLoader:
GetFactory(/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libraptorhtmlpars.so)
Load FAILED with error:
/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libraptorhtmlpars.so:
R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range
**************************************************
###!!! ASSERTION: unable to create parser: 'NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)', file
nsXULDocument.cpp, line 4025
###!!! Break: at file nsXULDocument.cpp, line 4025
DocLoaderFactory: Unable to create ContentViewer for command=view,
content-type=text/xul


The mozilla-viewer.sh program partially works.  Its output is:

MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin
       SHLIB_PATH=/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin
          LIBPATH=/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin
      MOZ_PROGRAM=./viewer
      MOZ_TOOLKIT=
        moz_debug=0
     moz_debugger=
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering succeeded
nNCL: registering deferred (0)
nsUnixToolkitService: Using 'gtk' for the Widget Toolkit.
nsUnixToolkitService: Using 'gtk' for the Gfx Toolkit.
NS_SetupRegistry() MOZ_TOOLKIT=gtk, WIDGET_DLL=libwidget_gtk.so,
GFX_DLL=libgfx_gtk.so
###!!! ASSERTION: ERROR: File locator cannot locate file.: 'NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)',
file ../../dist/include/nsIFileLocator.h, line 61
###!!! Break: at file ../../dist/include/nsIFileLocator.h, line 61
###!!! ASSERTION: ERROR: File locator cannot locate file.: 'NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)',
file ../../dist/include/nsIFileLocator.h, line 61
###!!! Break: at file ../../dist/include/nsIFileLocator.h, line 61
Going to create the event queue
###!!! ASSERTION: ERROR: File locator cannot locate file.: 'NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)',
file ../../../dist/include/nsIFileLocator.h, line 61
###!!! Break: at file ../../../dist/include/nsIFileLocator.h, line 61
GFX: dpi=96 t2p=0.0666667 p2t=15 depth=32
WEBSHELL+ = 1
**************************************************
nsNativeComponentLoader:
GetFactory(/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libraptorhtmlpars.so)
Load FAILED with error:
/home/stevenj/downloads/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libraptorhtmlpars.so:
R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range
**************************************************
DocLoaderFactory: Unable to create ContentViewer for command=view,
content-type=text/html


then, it opens up a window and the menus work, but the URL display is garbled
and it doesn't actually display anything (the HTML display view is a blank
grey).

Please let me know if you need any other information.

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson

Comment 1

[leger]

Sending over to Build guys to check out.

Comment 2

[Jon Granrose]

punting to cls.  Seen this before, Chris?

Comment 3

[cls]

No, I haven't seen this particular problem but I suggest trying egcs 1.1.2 if
possible or something other than gcc 2.95+.  We just discovered another problem
when compiling with gcc 2.95.2 (Bug #27064).

Comment 4

[Kevin Puetz]

Umm... LinuxPPC R4 doesn't have glibc2. Nor libc5. What it has the magnled child
of a CVS snapshot of what eventually became glibc2.0 (numbered 1.99). It's sort
of odd, and caused various unusual issues back when I had to work with it - and
besides it's own issues, doesn't mozilla require glibc2.1 on Linux anyway? R4
also used 2.1.24 as it's main kernel, and a specially hacked up build of egcs.
Basically, although it was the first end-user-complete Linux/PPC release that I
know of (obviously, end-user-complete is an opinion call), not all of the port
work had found it's way back upstream yet, so many key components were built off
of versions that had forked away from their x86 counterparts, so there are
various subtle library issues. R5 == 1999 brought the system back into sync and
onto stable versions of libraries, compilers, etc., instead of developmental
branches.

I'm sort of concerned in general about the idea of running gcc-2.95.2 on
LinuxPPC R4... that just doesn't sound like a healthy combination of library
versions. I think it may be time for the original poster to move to LinuxPPC
1999, 1999 Q3, or 2000, or debian/potato, or any other Linux/PPC distro of his
choice that actually has glibc2.1. There are PowerPC binaries in the dist
directory for M13 (built by me) that are known to work on debian and LinuxPPC
1999, but I wouldn't hold out much hope, or any effort at all, to try to work
around R4's library issues.

Also, to my knowledge the Lobard (G3 1999) laptops don't run R4 period
(certainly the 2.1.24 kernel won't boot), so the poster must have some
collection of updates that would murky the situation even farther... Oh, and a
warning - R4 and R5 are binary incompatible (since both the snapshot and
glibc2.1 call themselves libc.so.6 but are quite different), so don't try to
bring program binaries along.

Comment 5

[cls]

Ugh.  Have we verified that recent snapshots/milestones run on LinuxPPC with
a...um, do we even have system requirements for LinuxPPC?  That may be worth
opening a separate bug itself. For now, I'm going to say that we don't support
that system setup (R4, gcc 2.95.2, non-glibc 2.1) and mark this WONTFIX.  

Comment 6

[Kevin Puetz]

Mozilla works fine on LinuxPPC (I build milestone binaries which are on
ftp.mozilla.org and occasional nightlies - maybe weeklies - which are on
http://southpole.penguinpowered.com/). It just doesn't work on LinuxPPC R4, and
probably never will. I would just say that we require glibc2.1-based distros,
which includes recent versions of any of them. The binaries I build go a little
farther and also require libstdc++2.10, but if you compile from source you don't
have to have that.

Comment 7

[cls]

Actually, I got email from Steven after I closed the bug.  He said that he
typo'd and was actually using R5.  In any case, he has upgraded to the
Yellowdog? distribution and the latest milestones work for him.