gecko-dev/widget/gtk/mozgtk/gtk2
Mike Hommey 6a956c6f97 Bug 1187533 - Change how Gtk+2 plugin-container is started on Gtk+3 builds. r=billm
The current situation looks like this: Firefox launches the plugin-container
with two environment variables set:
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$FIREFOX_DIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  LD_PRELOAD=$FIREFOX_DIR/libmozgtk2.so:$LD_PRELOAD

libxul.so has a dependency on libmozgtk.so (without "2"), but libmozgtk2.so
has a SONAME of libmozgtk.so, so ld.so recognizes libmozgtk2.so as a
dependency of libxul.so, and uses it instead of the actual libmozgtk.so,
making the plugin-container use Gtk+2 instead of Gtk+3 to load Gtk+2 plugins.

Now, ASan sets things up in shared libraries such that they needs a symbol
from the executable binary. So in the case of plugin-container, the
plugin-container executable itself contains some ASan symbols such as
__asan_init_v3. libmozgtk2.so, OTOH, contains an undefined weak reference to
that symbol, like all other Firefox shared libraries.

Since libmozgtk2.so is LD_PRELOADed, it is loaded _before_ the
plugin-container executable, and __asan_init_v3 can't be resolved.

Disabling ASan for libmozgtk2.so would be a possibility, but the build system
doesn't really know how to do that, and filtering out -fsanitize=address
can be fragile.

The alternative possibility, implemented here, is to change the library
loading strategy, renaming libmozgtk2.so to gtk2/libmozgtk.so, and setting
the following environment variable when Firefox launches the plugin-container:
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$FIREFOX_DIR/gtk2:$FIREFOX_DIR:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
2015-07-28 08:19:13 +09:00
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moz.build Bug 1187533 - Change how Gtk+2 plugin-container is started on Gtk+3 builds. r=billm 2015-07-28 08:19:13 +09:00