I managed to build Pale Moon on uclibc-ng, but it's flaky and freezes
soon after starting. My first attempts to start it were greeted with...
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/libplc4.so:
File not found
Couldn't load XPCOM.
A bit of Google searching found the suggestion to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
first, e.g...
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon
That gets further; Pale Moon starts up, but freezes soon thereafter..
Here are the error messages from the xterm where it was launched from...
/home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon: '/usr/lib/libc.so' is not an ELF file
/home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon: '/usr/lib/libc.so' is not an ELF file
*************************
A coding exception was thrown and uncaught in a Task.
Full message: TypeError: Stat.xstat is not a function
Full stack:
stat@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_unix_back.jsm:630:19
stat@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_unix_front.jsm:934:36
stat@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_worker.js:187:1
worker.dispatch@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_worker.js:31:26
anonymous/AbstractWorker.prototype.handleMessage@resource://gre/modules/workers/PromiseWorker.js:122:16
@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_worker.js:46:43
*************************
Notes...
1) The part between the two "*************************" is repeated 5 or
6 times before Pale Moon freezes.
2) /usr/lib/libc.so is not an ELF file, because it's a *TEXT FILE*!!!
[UCLIBC][root][/] cat /usr/lib/libc.so
/* GNU ld script
* Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
* the static library, so try that secondarily. */
OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386",
"elf32-i386")
GROUP ( /usr/lib/uclibc_nonshared.a libpthread_nonshared.a
/lib/libc.so.0 AS_NEEDED ( /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 ) )
3) The build process to compile Pale Moon had initially failed early on,
because it couldn't find /lib/libc.so.6, so I made one. It's actually a
symlink pointing to libuClibc-0.1.0.22.so, the same file that
/lib/libc.so.0 points to.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
soon after starting. My first attempts to start it were greeted with...
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/libplc4.so:
File not found
Couldn't load XPCOM.
A bit of Google searching found the suggestion to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
first, e.g...
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon
That gets further; Pale Moon starts up, but freezes soon thereafter..
Here are the error messages from the xterm where it was launched from...
/home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon: '/usr/lib/libc.so' is not an ELF file
/home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon: '/usr/lib/libc.so' is not an ELF file
*************************
A coding exception was thrown and uncaught in a Task.
Full message: TypeError: Stat.xstat is not a function
Full stack:
stat@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_unix_back.jsm:630:19
stat@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_unix_front.jsm:934:36
stat@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_worker.js:187:1
worker.dispatch@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_worker.js:31:26
anonymous/AbstractWorker.prototype.handleMessage@resource://gre/modules/workers/PromiseWorker.js:122:16
@resource://gre/modules/osfile/osfile_async_worker.js:46:43
*************************
Notes...
1) The part between the two "*************************" is repeated 5 or
6 times before Pale Moon freezes.
2) /usr/lib/libc.so is not an ELF file, because it's a *TEXT FILE*!!!
[UCLIBC][root][/] cat /usr/lib/libc.so
/* GNU ld script
* Use the shared library, but some functions are only in
* the static library, so try that secondarily. */
OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386",
"elf32-i386")
GROUP ( /usr/lib/uclibc_nonshared.a libpthread_nonshared.a
/lib/libc.so.0 AS_NEEDED ( /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 ) )
3) The build process to compile Pale Moon had initially failed early on,
because it couldn't find /lib/libc.so.6, so I made one. It's actually a
symlink pointing to libuClibc-0.1.0.22.so, the same file that
/lib/libc.so.0 points to.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>