PM 25.1.0 build environment, did something change?

[KaoDome]

Hi, I have to run an old Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) Linux in a server.

Up to now I was using Pale Moon to keep up with times when I had to use a browser there but with the last release there's a symbol missing in a library making it impossible to work. Did something change? What are the minimum versions of GTK+ for example for it to work?

Thanks for your time anyway.

The error displayed when launched from a terminal is: palemoon: symbol lookup error: /opt/palemoon/libxul.so: undefined symbol: gdk_window_get_visual

[New Tobin Paradigm]

When was the last time you built Pale Moon?

[access2godzilla]

@trava, are you using a different setup for building Pale Moon binaries (other than the CentOS6/devtoolset1.1 combination)?

[trava90]

@trava, are you using a different setup for building Pale Moon binaries (other than the CentOS6/devtoolset1.1 combination)?

No, I am using CentOS 6.5 with devtoolset1.1 using this as a guide. Nothing else has been installed or updated, with the exception of dependency requirements.

[KaoDome]

I was using the binaries installed through the Pale Moon installer for Linux.

I'll look into building it myself today following that guide.

[KaoDome]

Hi, I just finished building it. I used a VM with the same version of Ubuntu the server runs and so far everything works as expected.

I had to edit a line of code though because of the older toolchain that ships with it (4.4.3).

pmsrc/toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/common/dwarf/dwarf2reader.cc:

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@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 
 #include <map>
-#include <memory>
+#include <memory.h>
 #include <stack>
 #include <string>
 #include <utility>

It may have had something to do with a GTK+ update in CentOS if there was one. Oddly though Firefox builds keep working on this system, maybe they are indeed using CentOS 5.

[access2godzilla]

@trava90, could you list the versions of the related packages installed on your system?

EDIT: okay, I see a number of packages that have been updated. Many of them are from the base repo, so finding older versions would be near impossible...
I could probably share the VM appliances but I'm likely cross my data cap if I am to upload ~3 GB of data Maybe Moonchild can share his own, or trava90 could move to CentOS 5?

EDIT 2: The latter seems to be the most preferable solution.

[Moonchild]

No, please do not change to CentOS5. That is a terrible suggestion, a2g -- CentOS 5 is incompatible with Pale Moon because of libc calls, anyway.

Also, KaoDome, you'd be better off to not build the crashreporter on Linux; it's pointless since those reports would not be submitted, to begin with.
Would have saved you a headache and the need for editing there

[trava90]

@trava90, could you list the versions of the related packages installed on your system?

I'm not around the computer with my build environment at the moment, but I will try to PM you a list later today.

EDIT: okay, I see a number of packages that have been updated. Many of them are from the base repo, so finding older versions would be near impossible...

I have not updated any packages with the exception of the few required to resolve dependencies for the build tools.

[trava90]

Looks like the problem had to do with some incompatibilities with the gtk lib 2.24 I built Pale Moon with. I have rebuilt the release using the more compatible gtk lib 2.20, and have replaced the builds on SourceForge with these new ones.

You can grab the new builds from the Pale Moon for Linux page.

Sorry for the inconvenience!