firefox and thunderbird for rawhide

Matias Feliciano feliciano.matias at free.fr
Thu Sep 2 03:13:10 UTC 2004


Le jeu 02/09/2004 à 00:36, Per Bjornsson a écrit :
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 02:48, Warren Togami wrote:
> > According to Havoc, firefox and thunderbird must be added for FC3/RHEL4 
> > target.  I am now rushing to build them into rawhide.  Your assistance 
> > in testing and analysis would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cool! Unfortunately I have no rawhide easily accessible at the moment
> but I did dump an FC2 rebuild of xorg-x11 6.7.99.903 (RC3 of 6.7.8) from
> Rawhide onto my FC2 install since it gives me nice 3D acceleration on my
> Radeon IGP, plus apparently clock scaling (although I haven't checked to
> see if it actually improves the notebook battery life). I had to muck
> around with the split-out of the Xprint libs into
> xorg-x11-deprecated-libs and discovered this:
> 
> [perbj at minicooper perbj]$ rpm -ql xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6.2
> [perbj at minicooper perbj]$ sudo rpm -e xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
> Password:
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libXp.so.6 is needed by (installed) openmotif-2.2.3-4.1
>         libXp.so.6 is needed by (installed) openmotif-devel-2.2.3-4.1
>         libXp.so.6 is needed by (installed) xpdf-3.00-3
>         libXp.so.6 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-6.7.99.903-1
>         libXp.so.6 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-tools-6.7.99.903-1
>         libXp.so.6 is needed by (installed) firefox-0.9.3-0.fdr.4
> 

Nedit and ddd also.


> (I just did that to get a listing of what depends on libXp...) So it
> seems that firefox somehow picked up a direct dependency on Xprint which
> is considered deprecated by Red Hat. I'm not really sure how the
> dependency ended up there though, since Firefox doesn't seem to link
> directly to libXp:
> 
> [perbj at minicooper perbj]$ ldd /usr/lib/firefox-0.9.3/firefox-bin  | grep Xp
> [perbj at minicooper perbj]$

$ cd /usr/lib/firefox-0.9.3/components
$ ldd libgfx_gtk.so libgfxxprint.so | grep Xp
        libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x00be2000)
        libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x00d06000)

> 
> What's going on here? Anyone have a clue, or is it worth digging into?
> Since Red Hat people have clearly indicated that Xprint is considered
> deprecated it seems somewhat useful to try to avoid dependencies on it,
> especially in stuff added to the distro now... As you can see from the
> listing above, Mozilla doesn't have this dep (the Fedora build doesn't
> support Xprint) so it seems pretty strange that it should be a hard
> requirement for Firefox, although I haven't really checked yet.
> 
> Cheers,
> Per
> 
> -- 
> Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
> Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
> 
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