Seamonkey core dumps at start in nsACString_internal::~nsACString_internal

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 23:09 +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:28:06PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > 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!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > Does this also apply to other Gecko ports, or just seamonkey?
> 
> It's known to affect at least firefox and seamonkey, though the
> other xpcom consumers are also most likely affected.

I think this patch should take care of all of them then.  Thanks.

Joe

> 
> Marius
> 
> 
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