segfault from HTML renderer when build "WITH_MOZILLA=firefox" / firefox 1.5.0.1

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Georg-W. Koltermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can build "WITH_MOZILLA=firefox" from ports just fine, but at runtime
> when I open a HTML file, Eclipse aborts
> with: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /home/hunter/gwk/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.1.2/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/67/1/.cp/libswt-mozilla-gtk-3139.so: Undefined symbol "NS_InitEmbedding"
> 
> Setting MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME in /usr/local/bin/eclipse back to the regular
> mozilla is of not much help, now I
> get: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /home/hunter/gwk/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3.1.2/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/68/1/.cp/libswt-mozilla-gtk-3139.so: Undefined symbol "NS_StringContainerInit2"
> 
> I've finally rebuilt without "WITH_MOZILLA=xxx", and now it works (using
> regular mozilla).
> 
> I think we should get a message at build time if there is a missing
> external.  Why are we not getting that?  Do we, maybe, forget to rebuild
> libswt-mozilla-gtk-3139.so at all?

It's a known issue, but I'm pretty sure this is not the problem. I 
haven't found the time to track this down (I've been mostly researching 
the cairo issue), but perhaps it could be attributed to the following 
(from http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux):

Q: What do I need to run the SWT Browser inside Eclipse on Linux/GTK or 
Linux/Motif?
A: You need one of the following:

* Mozilla version 1.4 GTK2 - Mozilla 1.6 GTK2 can be used with SWT 3.0.
* Mozilla version 1.4 GTK2 - Mozilla 1.7.8 GTK2 can be used with SWT 3.1.
* Firefox can be used with SWT 3.1 (Linux only), provided that it has 
been compiled with linkable Gecko libraries. It is important to note 
that Firefox downloads from mozilla.org currently do not satisfy this 
criteria, but Firefox installations that are included in major Linux 
distributions typically do. Attempting to use a statically-linked 
Firefox install will display the error message "No more handles 
[NS_InitEmbedding...error -2147221164]".

If you could find out if we can overcome this by building firefox 
differently, that would be great.

Cheers,

Panagiotis