I mentioned in an earlier thread that I was having problems with the Mozilla-1.5-0.92mdk placed in the MandrakeClub archive, in particular, that pressing the Mail icon on the Browser Status Bar (down at the bottom left-hand corner) quite often resulted in an unceremonious closedown of all Mozilla windows.
This bug had been *very* noticeable with Chip Cuccio's first offering of Mozilla-1.5 on his NORLUG archive (I can't speak for the second), was sporadically present with Buchan Milne / Fred Crozat's MandrakeClub RPM and was absent (as far as I can tell) from Scott Bolander's XFT-enabled tarball.
About:buildconfig shows all the variants to have really quite different compiler and configuration switches and, as a non-Mozzy guru, it's a little difficult for me to pin down whether this is an error/feature in Mozilla or its build environment. A first local rebuild on a clean MDK 9.2 with current updates produced identical behaviour. So far, so good!
However, in looking for likely clues in Buchan's configuration, my eye was caught by the pthread stuff: the presence of -pthread in the compiler option list, and presence of --without-system-nspr and absence of --with-pthreads in the configure arguments. Hmmm ... thinks ... popped the --with-pthreads into the spec file ... set the rebuild going ... went to bed.
Today (OK, OK, it's not the fastest of Athlons), the bunch of RPMS were
waiting for me, a quick rpm -Fvh and bingo - it now seems stable. Could you give the addition a whirl next time you rebuild (for mandrakeclub or cooker). Perhaps the list can comment if the bad bits pop up elsewhere!
On a minor issue, I did notice that the mozilla-irc rpm doesn't put a Mozilla Chat item in the menu. Is this deliberate?
Many thanks good people!
David
