From:	Stig Brautaset	Date:	Thu Mar  8 16:56:05 2007
Subject:	Re: Build problems on Debian Sid

Hi Martyn,

Where did you install SpiderMonkey? If you installed it into /usr/ 
local/lib (the default?) you may need to add that directory to /etc/ 
ld.so.conf and re-run /sbin/ldconfig .

Hope that helps,

Stig


On 8 Mar 2007, at 20:36, Martyn Smith wrote:

> So I managed to get it to build, and the tests ran and passed.
>
> But now I have the problem of having installed it (I used dh-make-perl
> still), and it obviously isn't using my compiled version of the
> SpiderMonkey lib
>
> Any ideas on what I need to change to make that happen ?
>
> --
> Martyn
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:05 +0100, Claes Jakobsson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There seems to be something wrong currently with the build process
>> when linking aginst Debian supplied spidermonkey. Others have
>> reported the same problem.
>>
>> The easiest way to solve it right now is that you download and build
>> your own SpiderMonkey and link aginst that.
>>
>> When running Makefile.PL, make sure your environment variable JS_INC
>> is set to the paths where your SpiderMonkey includes are (use : to
>> separate directories) and JS_LIB to point to the path where the
>> libjs.so is.
>>
>> /Claes
>>
>> On 6 mar 2007, at 21.46, Martyn Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I tried using dh-make-perl to build a new version of JavaScript
>>> (Debian
>>> Sid only has 0.55 :( )
>>>
>>> I'm having the tests fail with messages like ...
>>>
>>> t/00-init.........................NOK 1#     Tried to use
>>> 'JavaScript'.
>>> #     Error:  Can't load '/home/martyn/src/debian/JavaScript-1.03/
>>> blib/arch/auto/JavaScript/JavaScript.so' for module JavaScript: /
>>> home/martyn/src/debian/JavaScript-1.03/blib/arch/auto/JavaScript/
>>> JavaScript.so: undefined symbol: js_InternalInvoke at /usr/lib/perl/
>>> 5.8/DynaLoader.pm line 225.
>>> #  at (eval 3) line 2
>>> # Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 2.
>>> # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/00-init.t line 5.
>>> # Looks like you failed 1 test of 1.
>>> t/00-init.........................dubious
>>> 	Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
>>> DIED. FAILED test 1
>>> 	Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have installed libmozjs-dev and libmozjs0d, I'm not quite sure
>>> what to try next :(
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Martyn
>>>
>>