350647 - Tinderbox orange, can't launch trunk universal builds on 10.4 ppc, link order needs fixing

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Adam Guthrie]

It died (started crashing when running the MozillaAlive test on 2006-08-23 early morning. It was suspected that Smaug's checkin for bug 349069 broke things, but he backed it out and it didn't fix things.

It looks like it's crashing because it can't find some symbol in some carbon library (_PR_Malloc). TR looked for the core dump file and couldn't find it, but he did find the Mac crashlog which he says he'll attach.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

For what it's worth, phlox (on the MozillaTest tinderbox) started dying with this exact same error on 2006-08-24 afternoon-ish.

Comment 2

[T.R. Fullhart]

Attachment: CrashReporter log from bm-xserve02

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

CCing the Mac guys to see if they have any thoughts on this.

Comment 4

[Mark Mentovai]

This is a bug in Apple's 10.3 SDK.  PR_Malloc is an NSPR symbol, and we should use the version in our own libnspr.  Apple accidentally exposed NSPR in the 10.3 libraries, so depending on the link order, some things may wind up referencing system libraries when they shouldn't.  You get a runtime error because the tinderboxes are running 10.4, which correctly don't have NSPR crap exported from the system libraries.

The universal config for ppc on the trunk was recently changed from the 10.2 SDK to 10.3.

Comment 5

[Mark Mentovai]

Attachment: Move system libs after Mozilla libs

This will fix it for libwidget_mac and is sufficient to launch seamonkey-shared.  There may be other affected libraries.  (I already fixed many of them about a year ago.)

Comment 6

[Mark Mentovai]

Checked in.

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

bm-xserve02 just turned green. ->VERIFIED