79065 - installer can't start: requires unavailable lib: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Leston Buell]

Starting with the May 4, 2001 trunk builds, i cannot start the mozilla-installer
script. I get the following error:

   ./mozilla-installer-bin: 
   error while loading shared libraries: 
   libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3: cannot open shared object file: 
   No such file or directory

The May 5 0.9 builds do not have this problem. Neither do trunk builds up to
2001050315.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78874 ***

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

ver

Comment 3

[timeless]

No. This _might_ be described as a dupe of bug 68604, but it is unfair to call 
it a dupe of that bug.

Comment 4

[timeless]

ssu: the way i see it, there are two reasonable fixes for this bug.
a) Fix the installer script to check for the library and carp w/ an 
explanation+relnote/bugnote link
b) Make the installer statically linked to libstdc++ (I don't care which 
version, whichever the build system has available).

I'd prefer that we do (b).  If we do (b), we still need a warning either in the 
installer or in run-mozilla.sh explaining that we require a certain version of 
libstdc++.

Comment 5

[Sean Su]

over to Samir.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

Again: There is work in progress in bug 78874 to deal with this.

Comment 7

[Samir Gehani]

*** Bug 79170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Asko Tontti]

Attachment: patch for printing better error message

Comment 9

[Asko Tontti]

I could use xmessage to show the error message in X window but it uses
Athena widgets so it is not pretty.

Comment 10

[Asko Tontti]

BTW would README file be better destination for installer?

"More information can be found in the installation and release notes,
found at README file."

Comment 11

[Samir Gehani]

Asko,
Thank you for the patch.  I think that the resolution for bug 78874 will fix
this and we won't need to check for libs sepcifically.  

cls,
Please update us on the accuracy of my last statement.  If I am to take explicit
action please indicate the same and vend me a clue: this looks like build
changes that have affected the mozilla binary as well.

Comment 12

[Asko Tontti]

Samir: nope, the current patches for bug 78874 won't resolv the problem
for installer.

Comment 13

[Asko Tontti]

% ldd xpinstall/wizard/unix/src2/mozilla-installer-bin | grep libstdc
        libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

So installer cannot be started without proper libstdc++ and patching browser
won't help installer.

Comment 14

[Leston Buell]

I hope that if you direct people to the README file, that the README is actually
updated. I've added a comment to that effect that this library issue be
mentioned in the README in bug 58859.

Comment 15

[Syd Logan]

cls, I am thinking the right thing to do is override LIBS in the installer
wizard Makefile.in will fix this problem, how does that sound?

Comment 16

[cls]

(Ugh. How many of these bugs are there?)

The proper thing to do would be to statically link against libstdc++ if GNU_CXX
is set.  However, since the compiler on the nightly build machine has been
reverted, I'm pretty sure this is no longer an issue.

Comment 17

[Judson Valeski]

I saw this on a daily build from yesterday, commercial.

Comment 18

[cls]

The compiler was reverted this morning.  Wait for the 8pm build or even the
post-carpool landing build.

Comment 19

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Did the compiler change fix this bug?

Comment 20

[lchiang]

I believe this is fixed.  I have not heard of other reports on this.  I'll check
with Asa and Jimmy Lee.

Comment 21

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

looks good to me. tested 051608 builds (morning and afternoon) and they worked
fine for me. 

Comment 22

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Compiler was reverted, this is no longer a problem.

Comment 23

[Jimmy Lee]

Passing on some info I got to get the older libaries...

The older versions (which should work on redhat 6.x machines) can be
found at:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.2/i386////libstdc++-2.9.0-30.i386.html
and
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.2/i386////egcs-1.1.2-30.i386.html

Comment 24

[Grace Bush]

ok since compiler change