298060 - Build fails with undefined reference to 'NS_NewHTMLMetaElement(nsINodeInfo*, int)'

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Brad Jackson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050616 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050616 Firefox/1.0+

I am building Firefox from CVS with GCC 4.0 and binutils 2.15 on Mandrake 10.2.
 The linker started erroring out on 6/16 with:

In function `HTMLContentSink::ProcessMETATag(nsIParserNode const&)':
: undefined reference to 'NS_NewHTMLMetaElement(nsINodeInfo*, int)'

This appears to be caused by the checkin by peterv%propagandism.org.
I grepped my source tree for NS_NewHTMLMetaElement and the only location is one
line in nsHTMLContentSink.cpp.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
../../dist/lib/components/libgklayout.a(nsHTMLContentSink.o)(.data+0x104):
undefined reference to 'NS_NewHTMLMetaElement(nsINodeInfo*, int)'
../../dist/lib/components/libgklayout.a(nsHTMLContentSink.o)(.text._ZN15HTMLContentSink14ProcessMETATagERK13nsIParserNode+0x8b):
In function 'HTMLContentSink::ProcessMETATag(nsIParserNode const&)':
: undefined reference to 'NS_NewHTMLMetaElement(nsINodeInfo*, int)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[4]: *** [firefox-bin] Error 1
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bsjacks/mozilla/browser/app'
gmake[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bsjacks/mozilla/browser'
gmake[2]: *** [tier_99] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bsjacks/mozilla'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bsjacks/mozilla'
make: *** [build] Error 2
Command exited with non-zero status 2

Expected Results:  
Link should complete.

Comment 1

[Brad Jackson]

I got the build to complete when I tried the latest CVS code on 8/30.  I had
tried a week or two earlier and I got different undefined reference linker errors.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is this still an issue?

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 4

[Brad Jackson]

I've been compiling Firefox daily from the trunk with the latest GCC and binutils and I haven't seen this error since. When I last built from the 1.8 branch months ago, I also didn't have any problems. It's OK to resolve/close this bug as you see fit.

Comment 5

[Steve England [:stevee]]

--> WORKSFORME