Bug#660487: xulrunner-dev: instant segfault in startup (related to jemalloc)

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:54:54AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> 
> >>  but that's not the problem: the problem is generically to *all* -dev
> >> libraries.  hmm... let me raise this somewhere on a debian list, but
> >> essentially what i need to do is to create a package
> >> python-hulahop-that-compiles-and-links-to-xulrunner-9
> >
> > And that would have absolutely no usefulness in debian
> 
>  beh? :)
> 
> >>  why?
> >>
> >>  because of "pkg-config --variable=sdkdir libxul".
> >>
> >>  that line says it all: where does the libxul .pc file come from?
> >> from the -dev package.  what that *should* be is this:
> >>
> >>  pkg-config --exact-version 9.0 --variable=sdkdir libxul
> >
> > like pkg-config --variable=sdkdir libxul = 9.0 ?
> > tough that would break with 9.0.1.
> 
>  sorry i meant --exact-version=9.0.1
> 
> >>  but... but... that doesn't work either, does it, because _if_
> >> xulrunner-dev is installed and it's xulrunner-10.0-dev, then we're
> >> f****d, because that file libxul.pc is exclusively-named.
> >>
> >>
> >> > The good news for you is that
> >> > xulrunner 10 will stay there for a while and /might/ be what is released
> >> > in wheezy.
> >>
> >>  argh - actually that's _bad_ news, for exactly the reasons above.
> >> not only can it not be compiled (against xulrunner-9) but also it's
> >> xulrunner-10 which is severely borked.
> >>
> >>  hmm... i wonder if xulrunner 11 is similarly borked?
> >
> > pyxpcom doesn't build with xulrunner 11.
> 
>  it doesn't?  argh!  the fun continues :)

Note that it doesn't build out of the box with xulrunner 10. I had to
fix it in debian, and the fixes are probably not enough.