690679 - xulrunner-stub does not find application.ini if called through a symlink

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

A xulrunner app installed for example into /usr/lib/APP and having a copied xulrunner-stub there cannot be executed from another symlink location.

wolfi@Hygiea:~> /usr/bin/chmsee
Could not read application.ini

while /usr/lib64/chmsee/chmsee works

wolfi@Hygiea:~> ls -l /usr/bin/chmsee
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 30. Sep 08:47 /usr/bin/chmsee -> ../lib64/chmsee/chmsee
wolfi@Hygiea:~> ls -l /usr/lib64/chmsee/chmsee 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80992 30. Sep 08:47 /usr/lib64/chmsee/chmsee

This worked at least up to Gecko 2

Comment 1

[Neustradamus]

Hello guys,

There is a problem with application.ini since Firefox/Thunderbird 11 and SeaMonkey 2.8.

Can you read : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723493 and resolve this bug?

I would like to use new versions.

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

XULRunner has been removed from the Mozilla tree: see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/_rFMunG2Bgw for context.

I am closing all the bugs currently in the XULRunner bugzilla component, in preparation for moving this component to the graveyard. If this bug is still valid in a XULRunner-less world, it will need to be moved to a different bugzilla component to be reopened.