On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 07:27:16PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Aug 09 09:31:19, h...@stare.cz wrote:
> > > It is sometimes not present in package snapshots because the machine 
> > > building the
> > > official packages doesnt have enough physical memory to properly link it, 
> > > so it
> > > often fails. You have to build it yourself or wait for a newer snapshot
> > > to have it..
> > > Links without issues on a macmini with 1gb physmem and 3g swap.
> > 
> > Thank you for the insight; i am building it myself now.
> > 
> > > To be more precise, in the snapshots now present on the mirrors, it
> > > failed because of:
> > > 
> > > gmake[5]: Leaving directory
> > > `/usr/ports/pobj/firefox-21.0/build-powerpc/toolkit/components/feeds'
> > > gmake[4]: *** [autocomplete_tools] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > > gmake[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > 
> > > random segfaults in the compiler are quite frequent on 'exotic' archs..
> > 
> > Hm, let's see if it goes through on my 1G MacMini.
> 
> It built just fine: firefox-23.0p0.
> However, it refuses to start:
> 
>       $ firefox                                                           
>       XPCOMGlueLoad error for file
>       /usr/local/lib/firefox-23.0/libxul.so.42.0:
>       Cannot load specified object
>       Couldn't load XPCOM.

That usually means something in the deps chain is screwed. Use ldd on
libxul or ktrace to figure it out.

Landry

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