281879 - Can't find correct X libraries on x86-64 (SUSE)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

On SUSE 9.2 x86-64, the X libraries are in /usr/X11/lib64. configure does not
look in this directory for X libraries. It finds the 32-bit X libs in
/usr/X11/lib, and tries to use them. Naturally that causes the build to fail.

I resolved the problem by specifying --x-libraries=/usr/X11/lib64, but I'm not
sure how to fix this for real.

Comment 1

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

In fact it looks like the code that searches for the X libraries, and hence the
problem, might be in autoconf itself. Hmm. Blizzard, is that true?

Comment 2

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

I'm not sure.  I would ask cls, I think he wrote that code originally.  I wonder
what rhat and the other distros do with the X libraries with multilib.

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Patch for the rh spec files, fwiw:


--- SPECS/thunderbird.spec-old  2004-12-11 19:20:02.261825536 -0800
+++ SPECS/thunderbird.spec      2004-12-11 19:22:06.147991976 -0800
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@
 %setup -q -n mozilla
 cp -f %{SOURCE4} .mozconfig
 echo "ac_add_options --libdir=%{_libdir}" >> .mozconfig
+echo "ac_add_options --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/%{_lib}" >> .mozconfig
 echo "ac_add_options --with-default-mozilla-five-home=%{tbdir}" >> .mozconfig
 echo "mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS='%{?_smp_mflags}'" >> .mozconfig
 cp -f %{SOURCE5} . 

Comment 4

[cls]

Actually, the code that searches for the X libraries is a standard autoconf
macro (AC_PATH_XTRA).  I think the only fix is to use --x-libaries for 64bit
builds.  Looking at the autoconf 2.59-75.1 rpm from SLES9 x86_64, there is no
mention of lib64 anywhere so other programs must have to explicitly add that path.

Comment 5

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

While investigation why this works for me without having any special configure
options like x-libraries, I found that the configure script determines the
location of the X includes and libs by using imake/xmkmf stuff.

Comment 6

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

This works for me now; configure gets the correct paths via an xmkmf hack. I'm
not sure what was wrong before. Maybe the autoconf on the Mozilla.org machine
that generates 'configure' was updated.