Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xulrunner-1.9
source package: xulrunner-1.9
version: 1.9.0.1
ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10
I'm working on a project which depends on xulrunner and spidermonkey
(libmozjs). I use ubuntu 8.04 and xulrunner 1.9 as my development
environment. The problem is, libmozjs.so is in
/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.x/ subdir, the application can't find it if
rpath is not used. But if rpath is used, it'll be bound to a specific
version of xulrunner, which is not what we want. And there is no way to
get the correct library path of libmozjs.so by pkg-config --libs
mozilla-js.pc, which returns /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.x/lib as the
library path, which is only available in xulrunner-1.9-dev package.
The content of mozilla-js.pc provided by xulrunner-1.9-dev package:
----8<--------------------------------------------------------
prefix=/usr
sdkdir=/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.1
includedir=/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.0.1
Name: JavaScript
Description: The Mozilla JavaScript Library
Version: 1.9.0.1
Requires: nspr >= 3.12.0
Libs: -L${sdkdir}/lib -lmozjs
Cflags: -I${includedir}/stable -DXP_UNIX -DJS_THREADSAFE
----8<--------------------------------------------------------
You can see that there is no libdir definition in this file, and the -L
parameter points to /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.1/lib, which is only
available when xulrunner-1.9-dev is installed.
Below is mozilla-js.pc from openSUSE 11:
----8<--------------------------------------------------------
prefix=/usr
sdkdir=/usr/lib64/xulrunner-devel-1.9.0.3
libdir=/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9
includedir=/usr/include/xulrunner-1.9.0.3
Name: JavaScript
Description: The Mozilla JavaScript Library
Version: 1.9.0.3
Requires: nspr >= 4.7.1
Libs: -L${sdkdir}/lib -lmozjs
Cflags: -I${includedir}/unstable -DXP_UNIX -DJS_THREADSAFE
----8<--------------------------------------------------------
You can see that libdir is provided in this file and "/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9"
is a symbol link to the real xulrunner path(/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.0.3).
Then I can use the libdir as rpath in my application and is still ok after
upgrading xulrunner to a newer version.
Besides the libdir issue, the Cflags in ubuntu's mozilla-js.pc is
incorrect, which should be -I${includedir}/unstable instead of
-I${includedir}/stable
Both ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 have this issue.
** Affects: xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Alexander Sack (asac)
Status: New
** Changed in: xulrunner-1.9 (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Alexander Sack (asac)
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Unable to use libmozjs.so in an application, because of library path problem.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286906
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