Issues with xulrunner-14.0: run-mozilla.sh missing?

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Mike,

thanks for the prompt reply.

Mike Hommey wrote:
> > I tried to test Conkeror with xulrunner-14.0, but it seems to fail
> > before it even comes to reading conkeror's application.ini:
> > 
> > $ strace -e file xulrunner-14.0 /usr/share/conkeror/application.ini
[...]
> > faccessat(AT_FDCWD, "../lib/xulrunner-14.0/run-mozilla.sh", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > lstat64("../lib/xulrunner-14.0/xulrunner", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=3915, ...}) = 0
> > chdir("/home/abe")                      = 0
> > faccessat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/xulrunner-14.0a2/run-mozilla.sh", X_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> > Cannot find XULRunner runtime directory. Exiting.
> > 
> > There is no run-mozilla.sh in /usr/lib/xulrunner-14, while it seems to
> > exist in all previous xulrunner packages, at least on this box:
[...]
> > Looks like run-mozilla.sh is missing unintentionally in xulrunner-14.0
> > (package version 14.0~a2+20120518042008-1 from mozilla.d.n
> > iceweasel-aurora experimental).
> 
> It's actually missing intentionally. Upstream doesn't ship it anymore
> besides the sdk. It's not been any useful for xulrunner apps for a
> while.

So why does calling "xulrunner application.ini" fail then? I'd
expected that this usage is a common usage for starting xulrunner
applications. Or isn't it?

> (it's useful for xpcshell, though)

Or does this kind of usage imply xpcshell usage?

How can I start conkeror without using run-mozilla.sh?

		Regards, Axel
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