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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> 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.

 yeah i saw that.  because pyxpcom is maintained "externally", that
big batch of changes in 10.0.1 from PRBool to bool is just one example
that's causing problems: i had to similarly patch hulahop to
substitute PRBool for bool.

 l.