776845 - B2G Desktop Builds: Please provide 64-bit (x86_64) Linux builds

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: GonkIntegration, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Steps to reproduce:
 1) Run 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04
 2) Download a 32-bit B2G desktop build for Linux
 3) Decompress it.
 4) Try to run it.

Expected results:
Expected to have a B2G desktop build type that Just Works on 64-bit Ubuntu.

Actual results:
Since the build comes as a tarball rather than a .deb, dependencies don't get autoinstalled. When 32-bit versions of the right libs don't already happen to be installed, the B2G launch fails on the unavailability of some 32-bit library. Once you've figured out which package to install to satisfy the dependency, the B2G launch fails on the unavailability of the next 32-bit library. Rinse and repeat.

Additional info:
As an alternative to providing 64-bit builds, it would also help if the 32-bit version was packaged as an Ubuntu-friendly .deb, since that would automate the installation of the right 32-bit dependencies.

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

using whiteboard "b2g-desktop-builds" for ease of tracking

Comment 2

[Gangadhar Nittala(:gnittala)]

Henri, you are looking for both 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit .deb packages for the b2g desktop builds - is that right? If so can you please add that to the subject line. From the subject line it looks like the bug is for creating a tar-ball of the 64-bit b2g binary.

More info:
Currently b2g desktop build packages a 32-bit b2g binary. So, on Debian based distros, you will need to install ia32-libs (sudo apt-get install ia32-libs) before b2g starts fine.

b2g: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=0x7cbcfcb4fa5a04c9d636a2de69404802af7a7255, not stripped

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

(In reply to Gangadhar Nittala from comment #2)
> Henri, you are looking for both 64-bit (x86_64) and 32-bit .deb packages for
> the b2g desktop builds - is that right? If so can you please add that to the
> subject line. From the subject line it looks like the bug is for creating a
> tar-ball of the 64-bit b2g binary.

This bug is for creating a tar-ball of a 64-bit binary. I'll file a new bug about .deb, since it's different enough that it would be inappropriate to have it in the same bug.

> More info:
> Currently b2g desktop build packages a 32-bit b2g binary. So, on Debian
> based distros, you will need to install ia32-libs (sudo apt-get install
> ia32-libs) before b2g starts fine.

Thanks. This helped.

Comment 4

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

.deb request filed as bug 782200.

Comment 6

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

John: is someone from your team available to look at this?

Havi surveyed Brazilian app developers recently and found that 64-bit Linux is their most popular app development platform, preferred by 41.5% of developers (with the next most popular platform, Windows, preferred by 34.4%).  And B2G Desktop is the best available tool for testing apps in a Firefox OS environment at the moment, given the scarcity of phones and the difficulty in getting apps onto them.

So it's important to provide those developers with 64-bit builds of B2G Desktop!

Comment 7

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

Releng build system changes being tracked in bug 804330

Comment 8

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

These builds were set up in production last week.

Comment 9

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

I've been using these lately, and they've been working great.  Thanks, John!