Seamonkey core dumps at start in nsACString_internal::~nsACString_internal

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 22:36 +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:45:56PM -0800, Stephen Hurd wrote:
> > The current Seamonkey port is core dumping for me in 
> > nsACString_internal::~nsACString_internal
> > 
> > My options were:
> > # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
> > # No user-servicable parts inside!
> > # Options for seamonkey-1.1.7
> > _OPTIONS_READ=seamonkey-1.1.7
> > WITH_MAILNEWS=true
> > WITH_COMPOSER=true
> > WITHOUT_LDAP=true
> > WITH_CHATZILLA=true
> > WITH_JAVASCRIPT_DEBUGGER=true
> > WITHOUT_SMB=true
> > WITHOUT_DEBUG=true
> > WITHOUT_LOGGING=true
> > WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=true
> > 
> > Anyone have a set of options that does work?  I expect that 
> > WITHOUT_DEBUG and WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS at the very least should be frobbed.
> 
> This seems to be due to a miscompilation or mislinkage problem
> causing two nsObsoleteAString::sCanonicalVTable and two
> nsObsoleteACString::sCanonicalVTable symbols shadowing each-other
> respectively. To me this smells a a least bit like "you get what
> you asked for" though; I'm surprised their string code actually
> works somewhere. See the attachement for a patch that works around
> the problem by omitting the code in question.
> Dear gnome@ maintainers, could you please commit the attached
> patch and bump the PORTREVISIONs of the affected ports (the
> problem also affects at least www/firefox) or approve committing
> such a change?

Approved!  Does this also apply to other Gecko ports, or just seamonkey?

Joe

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