Re: Firefox build problem: GetVisibility__C7nsIView undefined (Linux/PPC)

Christian Biesinger wrote:
>Steve Summit wrote:
>>>>       /usr/local/lib/firefox-1.0.7/firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
>>>>       /usr/local/lib/firefox-1.0.7/components/libdocshell.so: undefined symbol: GetVisibility__C7nsIView
>
> Are you using GCC 2.95.x?

Yes.  (2.95.3.)

(I hooooooope you're not gonna say, "Well, there's your problem",
because I reeeeeeeeeally don't wanna upgrade my whole compiler.
I'll probably go back to FF 1.0.5 in that case, because it built
and ran fine with this compiler.)

>> If anybody could even explain what the mechanism for loading
>> all the auxiliary .so libraries is, that might help me to track
>> the problem down.
>
> Well, it uses dlopen/dlsym/dlclose to load the libraries and find the 
> symbols in there...  Not sure if that helps you really :)

Yes, that's very useful.  Thanks.