843428 - 64-bit xulrunner is nsXULRunnerApp.cpp; 32-bit xulrunner is nsXULStub.cpp

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Simon Kornblith]

As of XULRunner 19, the "xulrunner" executable in XUL.framework/Versions/Current seems to have multiple personality disorder, as evidenced by the following output:

$ arch -i386 ./xulrunner 
Could not read application.ini

$ arch -x86_64 ./xulrunner 
Mozilla XULRunner 19.0

Usage: xulrunner [OPTIONS]
       xulrunner APP-FILE [APP-OPTIONS...]
[...]

Examining the executable with strings -arch i386 and strings -arch x86_64 suggests that the 32-bit executable is being built from xulrunner/stub/nsXULStub.cpp, while the 64-bit executable is being built from xulrunner/app/nsXULRunnerApp.cpp. These are then being unified into a universal binary that behaves very differently across architectures.

In XULRunner 18.0.2, the xulrunner executable was built from nsXULRunnerApp.cpp on both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

Comment 1

[Simon Kornblith]

This seems to be fixed in the XULRunner 20 betas, so this can be closed.