414546 - undefined symbol: pango_font_describe_with_absolute_size

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 414239

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect)

Description

[Behnam Esfahbod [:zwnj]]

OS: Ubuntu Dapper (6.06)
Machine AMD 64
Pango: version 1.12.3-0ubuntu3

Latest nightly (2008-01-29) crashes, making this error:

/opt/firefox-3.0-nightly/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error: /opt/firefox-3.0-nightly/libxul.so: undefined symbol: pango_font_describe_with_absolute_size

Comment 1

[timeless]

Linux/Runtime Requirements - MozillaWiki
These requirements may change over time, based on how the platform evolves. ... pango-1.14.9-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm; pango-devel-1.14.9-3.el5.centos.i386.rpm ...
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Linux/Runtime_Requirements 

The requirements clearly say 1.14.

Comment 3

[mattwood]

OK, so the runtime requirements have changed and now require a Linux install equivalent to CentOS 5, which was released in April 2007.  That's equivalent to only supporting Vista on the Windows platform.  Fine, I understand desktop Linux was in a bad state.

Will some error handling be added so that people who have installed firefox as a binary (not through RPMs) don't crash horribly when they do the major update to Firefox 3?  

Or will that major update not be offered on Linux?

Comment 4

[Behdad Esfahbod]

(In reply to comment #3)
> OK, so the runtime requirements have changed and now require a Linux install
> equivalent to CentOS 5, which was released in April 2007.  That's equivalent to
> only supporting Vista on the Windows platform.  Fine, I understand desktop
> Linux was in a bad state.

Except that Vista is not free.  And most Linux distros don't have long term support.  If you still run Fedora 2, there's something seriously broken about your system anyway.

Desktop Linux was not in bad state.  Just that Linux distros make releases every 6 month or so.  No need to support 5 years worth of releases back.

> Will some error handling be added so that people who have installed firefox as
> a binary (not through RPMs) don't crash horribly when they do the major update
> to Firefox 3?  
> 
> Or will that major update not be offered on Linux?
> 

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

But wait, where do we call that function? LXR doesn't find any callers for me.