FS#2010 - firefox and ld.so.conf

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 17:18 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 17:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

firefox has had issues on my system for some time. After some looking, I noticed "ldd" was not finding libmozjs.so and libxpcom.so (which are part of the firefox lib directory). Due to the way firefox is installed (in /opt similar to kde and gnome), the lib directory should be specified in ld.so.conf in a similar manner.

a simple #echo "/opt/mozilla-firefox/lib/firefox" >> /etc/ld.so.conf should be all that is needed in the mozilla-firefox.install directory.

I have no clue why this is not an issue on more systems, but this will def. fix some common issues on the forums.

For more details, see http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=60826
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 09:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 17:20 GMT
This is the real problem behind http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&id=1912 so that can be removed or closed....
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Thursday, 13 January 2005, 06:07 GMT
Hmm, well it appears this could be solved by adding a profile script for firefox... it'd be easiest to add the path above to LD_LIBRARY_PATH... however no other profile script defines this varibale (it's probably a better option than using ld.so.conf...)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 20:50 GMT
Should be fixed with latest mozilla-firefox package, since we use the upstream launcher scripts that set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD stuff now.

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