271092 - firefox does not install on mandrake 9.0 glibc 2.2.5

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Peter Kroll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: 

when running the firefox-installer as a regular user on mandrake 9.0 with glibc
2.2.5 the following error is returned partway through isntallation

DLError: /usr/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by ./libxpcom.so)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. download firefox 1.0 tar.gz
2. tar -zxvf firefox-installer
3. cd firefox-installer
4. ./firefox-installer
5. select custom install. select developer tools and quality feedback agent

Actual Results:  
show the error listed above

Expected Results:  
a perfect install

Comment 1

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Firefox requires glivc 2.3.2 to be present on the system. See
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html

-> INVALID

Comment 2

[Louis Blanchard]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> Build Identifier: 
> 
> when running the firefox-installer as a regular user on mandrake 9.0 with glibc
> 2.2.5 the following error is returned partway through isntallation
> 
> DLError: /usr/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by ./libxpcom.so)
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. download firefox 1.0 tar.gz
> 2. tar -zxvf firefox-installer
> 3. cd firefox-installer
> 4. ./firefox-installer
> 5. select custom install. select developer tools and quality feedback agent
> 
> Actual Results:  
> show the error listed above
> 
> Expected Results:  
> a perfect install

Same same results for me with Mandrake 9.0.  I find it incomprehensible that
Mozilla/Firefox would create a product that would have a "fatal" dependency that
is difficult/impossible to fix.  Under windows, Firefox 1.0 installs on all
platforms 95/98/SE/ME/XP.  BTW, Mozilla 1.7 works...

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 271958 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Peter Kroll]

is there a way to change this bug to a feature request?

perhaps a link to a detailed explanation of why glibc 2.3.2 is required when
2.2.x worked fine in firefox 0.8

It appears that those incharge of Firefox are more concerned with Windows. This
has it's obvious advantages because Windows has a larger marketshare.

From my laymond perspective if Mozilla 1.8a5 and Firefox 0.8 can run on glibc
2.2.x than there appears to be no technical reason for making the minimum 2.3.2
My gut feeling is that I am wrong and there is a technical reason for 2.3.2

Being that this is open source software, can we have someone justify this
requirement?

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Please do not reopen a bug if you just want an explanation. This bug is INVALID
and will stay that way until our system requirements change.

I'm CC'ing mconnor on the issue here.

Mike, any idea why we are requiring glibc 2.3.2 on Linux? Is it just because our
build machines are using it or are there other reasons?

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

What Mozilla does isn't really relevant to our purposes.  Mozilla default builds
are also GTK1.2, instead of GTK2+XFT.  Also, 0.8 was basically done a year ago,
so its not necessarily a good thing to assume that nothing's changed in a year
of development time.

Brian Ryner's made it pretty clear that glibc 2.3.2 will continue to be the
minimum required glibc for release builds, but I don't remember the original
reason why.  You can still build from source with older glibc versions, as far
as I recall.

Comment 7

[Louis Blanchard]

(In reply to comment #6)
> What Mozilla does isn't really relevant to our purposes.  Mozilla default builds
> are also GTK1.2, instead of GTK2+XFT.  Also, 0.8 was basically done a year ago,
> so its not necessarily a good thing to assume that nothing's changed in a year
> of development time.
> 
> Brian Ryner's made it pretty clear that glibc 2.3.2 will continue to be the
> minimum required glibc for release builds, but I don't remember the original
> reason why.  You can still build from source with older glibc versions, as far
> as I recall.


Just downloaded, configured (no errors)and then compiled Mozilla 1.0 source. 
Make exited with the following errors:

error: file '../../toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/necko/contents.rdf' doesn't
exist at ../../config/make-jars.pl line 418, <STDIN> line 9.
gmake[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/louis/mozilla/netwerk/resources'
gmake[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/louis/mozilla/netwerk'
gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/louis/mozilla'
make: *** [default] Error 2

Checked ./configure --help but nothing appeared obvious to disable to get past
this error.  Any suggestions?

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Louis, the mozilla firefox trunk code is in a pretty mixed up shape right now,
due to the landing of the Firefox 1.0 branch (aviary branch). Try it again in
one or two weeks when all the regressions have been fixed.