On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:10 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I keep getting reports from gentoo
> users (64 and 32 bit) they when they use the Firefox version from
> emerge (apparently it is now in testing, but not the main tree) my
> component library Perspectives.so fails to load. In the log it looks
> like this:
>
> -1210775856[8058c90]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("/home/
> dan/.mozilla/firefox/re9q6sk5.default/extensions/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
> platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/components/Perspectives.so") - load FAILED,
> rv: 80004005, error:
> /home/dan/.mozilla/firefox/re9q6sk5.default/extensions/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/components/
> Perspectives.so: undefined symbol:
> SECKEY_DecodeDERSubjectPublicKeyInfo
SECKEY_DecodeDERSubjectPublicKeyInfo is in NSS 3.4 or later,
so all recent NSS releases have this symbol.
> The extension has several thousand users and pretty much the only
> error reports I get is from gentoo users. I've had them make sure that
> the NSS libraries are installed. One helpful user even ran pmap on
> the running Firefox process, which seems to indicate that the libnss
> libraries were successfully loaded.
>
> $ pmap $(pgrep firefox) | grep libnss
> b27a2000 272K r-x-- /usr/lib/nss/libnssckbi.so.12
> b27e6000 28K r---- /usr/lib/nss/libnssckbi.so.12
> b27ed000 16K rw--- /usr/lib/nss/libnssckbi.so.12
> b2831000 124K r-x-- /usr/lib/nss/libnssdbm3.so.12
> b2850000 4K r---- /usr/lib/nss/libnssdbm3.so.12
> b2851000 4K rw--- /usr/lib/nss/libnssdbm3.so.12
> b4a25000 16K r-x-- /lib/libnss_dns-2.6.1.so
> b4a29000 4K r---- /lib/libnss_dns-2.6.1.so
> b4a2a000 4K rw--- /lib/libnss_dns-2.6.1.so
> b5b1a000 76K r-x-- /usr/lib/nss/libnssutil3.so.12
> b5b2d000 12K r---- /usr/lib/nss/libnssutil3.so.12
> b5b30000 4K rw--- /usr/lib/nss/libnssutil3.so.12
> b5b31000 1084K r-x-- /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.12
> b5c40000 16K r---- /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.12
> b5c44000 4K rw--- /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.12
The presence of libnssdbm3.so shows that this user is
using NSS 3.12 or newer.
> I am compiling the library on Ubuntu with flags (excluding unnecessary
> lines):
>
> GECKO_LDFLAGS = -L$(GECKO_SDK_PATH)/lib -L$(GECKO_SDK_PATH)/bin -Wl,-
> rpath-link,$(GECKO_SDK_PATH)/bin -lxpcomglue_s -lxpcom -lxul -lnss -
> lnssutil
>
> $(CXX) -Wall -Os -o $(TARGET) $(GECKO_CONFIG_INCLUDE) $
> (GECKO_DEFINES) $(GECKO_INCLUDES) -shared $(CXXFLAGS) $(FILES) $
> (GECKO_LDFLAGS)
With an official NSS 3.12.x release, you should link with -lnss3 -lnssutil3.
I don't know what changes Gentoo made to its NSS package.
Wan-Teh
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