323921 - firefox 1.5 won't run with mandriva linux libraries.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Build Identifier: firefox-1.5,tar,gz for linux and mandriva 2006 free i586 linux

i've installed mandriva (mandrake) linux, the free version, called 2006/i586.  it comes with firefox 1.0.6 installed and working.  i downloaded firefox 1.5 for linux and unpacked it in /usr/.  typing /usr/firefox/firefox generates a complaint that libstdc++.so.5 cannot be found.  a symbolic link between /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0 or /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.5 produces complaints that GLIBCPP_3.2 and CXXABI_1.2 are the wrong versions.  in this mandrake there is nothing in /usr/local/lib where in other linuxes libstdc++.so.5 might be found.  in short the current firefox build doesn't run on mandrake linux due to library issues.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.download free mandriva and select standard installation
2.download firefox-1.5.tar.gz and place in /usr
3.tar to unpack
4> attempt to run firefox

Actual Results:  
firefox cannot find libstdc++.so.5 and won't run

Expected Results:  
firefox looks for the current versions of libstdc++.so.X shipped with contemporary linux versions.

i tried quickly to find a rpm of .5 on the internet and it appears there is one but firefox should run out of the box on common and uptodate linux versions.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Linux distro's are moving targets and it's very hard to run out of the box on all the popular ones. Besides, Mozilla chooses to not require a very recent versions of libraries so that older installs are not left behind.

This is really a problem for Mandriva to solve with the dependencies of their rpm. You can work around it my installing the comatibility library that provides libstdc++.so.5

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

It's a shame that distros aren't shipping the libstdc++.so.5 any more: we need to work with RH9 and up, and that means using libstdc++.so.5