Mozilla Weave broken because of crypto

[dougm]

Hi,

I tried to install the Mozilla Weave firefox extension on my Gentoo system, and after restarting firefox, it tells me that there is a problem with the crypto in this installation. I did some searching, and the same problem pops up in Ubuntu when one of two crypto libraries aren't installed (nss, and another), but I have both installed. In addition, I saw some reference to needing to have at least Firefox 3.0.1 (I orignally had 3.0 rc1), but I upgraded to 3.0.1 and I still have the same problem. Has anyone else come across this?

[Dinini]

The same error message occurs if you are trying to run the 32bit addon in a 64bit browser.

What platform are you using?

x86 (or firefox-bin) should work without modification (it works with firefox-bin, I don't run a 32bit system so I can't swear it works)


amd64 requires you to compile the addon yourself (the mozilla package only includes 32 bit programs which can't talk to the 64bit system libraries) it does take a couple of minor changes to the makefile, just ask if you need more info.

[dougm]

Ahh, and that would be the clue... I'm running the 64-bit browser compiled myself... I'll give it a shot myself, and then mention back if I get stuck... Is there an ebuild somewhere for the extension?

[Dinini]

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Building

from memory (so check the preceeding link)

(source code is kept in mercurial, so either emerge it or download a source snapshot.)

checkout source: hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/weave

cd weave

edit src/Makefile (about half way into the file, you'll see a "headers =" section, change "-I/$(sdkdir)/include/nss \" to "-I/usr/include/nss \" and "-I$(sdkdir)/include/nspr \" to "-I/usr/include/nspr \" then a couple lines later there's "libdirs :=" line, add "/usr/lib/nspr /usr/lib/nss" to the end of that line.

edit install.rdf (verify there's a line <em:targetPlatform>Linux_x86_64-gcc3</em:targetPlatform> [something like that - the Linux_x86_64-gcc3 part is correct, just dont' trust my memory on the tags] add it if it doesn't exist.)

compile source: make sdkdir=/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9 xpi

install addon: firefox weave-Linux.xpi

Hope that helps!

[Dinini]

Additional notes:

The code is NOT sandbox friendly, I need to compile as root since it's adding files to the sdkdir.

to keep the code up to date:

cd weave
hg pull
hg update
make sdkdir=/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9 clean
then build again

diff of the changes to src/Makefile

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diff -r 53e25c0c7e2e src/Makefile
--- a/src/Makefile	Wed Aug 20 18:24:08 2008 -0700
+++ b/src/Makefile	Thu Aug 21 10:36:55 2008 -0500
@@ -155,15 +155,15 @@
 
 headers = -I$(sdkdir)/include \
           -I$(sdkdir)/include/system_wrappers \
-          -I$(sdkdir)/include/nss \
+          -I/usr/include/nss \
           -I$(sdkdir)/include/xpcom \
           -I$(sdkdir)/include/string \
           -I$(sdkdir)/include/pipnss \
-          -I$(sdkdir)/include/nspr \
+          -I/usr/include/nspr \
           -I$(sdkdir)/sdk/include
 
 # libraries
-libdirs := $(sdkdir)/lib $(sdkdir)/bin
+libdirs := $(sdkdir)/lib $(sdkdir)/bin /usr/lib/nspr /usr/lib/nss
 libs := xpcomglue_s xpcom nspr4 \
         crmf smime3 ssl3 nss3 nssutil3 \
         plds4 plc4

[dougm]

Thanks, your help got me going and I have it installed now. For anyone else who wants to do this without a hassle, I created an ebuild and submitted it to Gentoo at [bug=235397]http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235397[/bug]