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

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 05:17:40PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:47:54PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Ah, nice bug.

Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756786.

Iceweasel is not affected because it uses the xulrunner-stub.

Mike