Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

O. Hartmann ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de
Sun Feb 1 03:29:01 PST 2009


Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:39 PM, O. Hartmann
> <ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>   
>> build-process, but I doubt this. I did a 'ldd' on the Firefox3 binary
>> and  I got the attached dump of the linked shared objects.
>> Interestingly, the first three entries show up something missing -
>> therefore I deinstalled Firefox and rebuild the browser after an
>> additional rebuild of libxcb (via portupgrade -rf). Previously, all Xorg
>>     
>
>   
>> thor# ldd firefox-bin
>> firefox-bin:
>>        libxul.so => not found (0x0)
>>        libmozjs.so => not found (0x0)
>>        libxpcom.so => not found (0x0)
>>        libplds4.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libplds4.so.1 (0x80063e000)
>>        libplc4.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libplc4.so.1 (0x80076f000)
>>     
>
> When firefox3 was first added to the ports collection, I had noticed
> this problem with firefox3 (after using sysutils/libchk), but I didn't
> have this problem with the firefox 2.  A look at the difference
> between the www/firefox and www/firefox3 Makefiles showed that
> firefox3 was missing this:
>
> LDFLAGS+= -Wl,-rpath,${PREFIX}/lib/${MOZ_RPATH}
>
> After adding this line to the ports Makefile, and rebuilding the port,
> these libraries are now showing as found in the ldd output.
>
> Scot
>   
Isn't that worth a PR?



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