Re: mozilla compiling woes (1.2.1 and cvs)

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 02:49, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
> I re-configured it to install to ~/opt and and now it runs fine.
> 
> Very strange, why would it fail to run in /usr/local and have no
> problems in ~/opt?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 12:43, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
> > I have compiled both mozilla-1.2.1 (patched) and yesterday's source
> > tarball (unpatched) with the following configure options:
> > 
> > $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
> > --disable-debug
> > 
> > Both built and installed without incident.  However, I attempted to run
> > mozilla as root (the instructions stated to run as root before any user
> > to create some necessary files) I got basically the same terminal outupt
> > from both:
> > 
> > (process:1878): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:
> > gtype.c:1876:g_type_register_static(): initialization assertion failed,
> > use g_type_init() prior to this function
> >  
> > (process:1878): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkscreen-x11.c: line 136
> > (gdk_screen_get_width): assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
> >  
> > (process:1878): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:
> > gtype.c:1876:g_type_register_static(): initialization assertion failed,
> > use g_type_init() prior to this function
> >  
> > (process:1878): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkscreen-x11.c: line 154
> > (gdk_screen_get_height): assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
> >  
> > (process:1878): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:
> > gtype.c:1876:g_type_register_static(): initialization assertion failed,
> > use g_type_init() prior to this function
> >  
> > (process:1878): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkrgb.c: line 3537
> > (gdk_screen_get_rgb_visual): assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
> > 
> > 
> > If I run it as a user no output is generated.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas on what the problem is?
> > 
> > I am running RedHat 7.3 with the latest ximian-gnome2 snaps, along with
> > an updated via rpm mozilla 1.2.1 and galeon 1.2.7 installed in the usual
> > place, /usr
> > 
> > thanks.
> > 

I have noticed this on some builds as well.

It seems something to do with moz now setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and it
doesn't like it if the prefix is /usr or /usr/local ie: a path which
ldconfig picks up

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