Re: Linux / libxpistub.so, Error ~618 xpistub

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:57:10 -0600, John Smith wrote:

> I am not sure I am in the correct newsgroup, but this problem seems to
> stem from the XPInstall shared library.  The Netscape/Mozilla installers
> fail every time with "Fatal error [~618]: Couldn't open xpistub
> library", this is not specific to my installation (libxpistub.so is in
> my standard library path and is in ld.so.conf, and several posters have
> similar messages w/o a response or fix - google of "~618 xpistub" turns
> up bad installs from back in 2001); I am wondering if this is a result 
> of version mismatch of the shared library, my current installation is
> Netscape 7.02 (Gecko/20030208).  Also the installations fail on
> Extration of libplc4.so (which is also in my std lib path).  I cannot
> find any options for turning on debug or verbose reporting.  Any
> thoughts/fixes/redirection would be appreciated.  I have tried clean
> install path using different options for install each time, I have even 
> extracted xpcom.xpi and manually installed the shared libraries.  I have 
> used both -bin and -install binaries for the installation, both failing.

Howdy,
	I figure'd out what went wrong, in file
mozilla/xpinstall/wizard/unix/src2/nsXIEngine.cpp:655
libpath is = to NULL ; this is a big problem, since it is searching the root
directory for libxpistub.so (exact line:
sprintf(libpath,"%s/%s",libpath,XPISTUB);.  Short fix: cp libxpistub.so from std.
library location to root dir (if you have privledges) and remove it
afterwards.  Perhaps I should submit a patch for this...  Hope this helps
someone.