577213 - firefox 4 beta 1 gives bad error message when run on Mac OS X 10.4

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[pfmoose]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/533.16
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-4.0b1&os=osx&lang=en-US

There was a similar report filed about the alpha prerelease, the answer to that was that the trunk was 10.5 and above only, however in the beta the min. System Requirements are 10.4 and above but Firefox still fails to launch.

Crash log:



Host Name:      [anonymous]
Date/Time:      2010-07-07 10:23:01.000 +0200
OS Version:     10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4

Command: firefox-bin
Path:    ./firefox-bin
Parent:  bash [250]

Version: ??? (???)

PID:    251
Thread: Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

Symbol not found: _open$UNIX2003
  Referenced from: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/./libnspr4.dylib
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download Firefox 4 beta 1
2. Copy to /Applications/
3. Launch


Expected Results:  
Launch succesfully.

Comment 1

[timeless]

We could set LSMinimumSystemVersion

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFBundles/BundleTypes/BundleTypes.html

Comment 2

[timeless]

Attachment: proposal

Comment 3

[pfmoose]

Does this mean that the beta won't be compatible with 10.4? Or even that Firefox 4 won't be compatible?

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Does this mean that the beta won't be compatible with 10.4? Or even that
> Firefox 4 won't be compatible?

You're out of luck, Firefox 4 / Gecko 2.0 requires 10.5 or higher

It is a bug on the download page that it says '10.4'.

Comment 5

[timeless]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f4841bfd718a