The nvu startup script, located at /usr/bin/nvu, looks for the
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable to determine the location of its binary
files. On any system which has this variable in its startup environment, nvu
will fail to launch.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
This problem appears to occur when a system at one time had an older version of
the mozilla-suite installed, or if the user had installed, at any time, a
binary
distirbution outside of portage and hardcoted MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME in the startup
environment.
Possible ways to resolve this issue: 1) Update mozilla-launcher to include nvu
support. 2) Create a custom version of mozilla-launcher, and wrap this around
the nvu launch script. 3) Edit /usr/bin/nvu and hardcode MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME.
---------Emerge Info follows-------------
Portage 2.0.51_rc9 (!/var/lib/portage/profiles/default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4,
glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.8.1-ck8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8.1-ck8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.1
distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/lib/jboss /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.binarycompass.org"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/bmg-gnome-current
/usr/local/overlays/bmg-main /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr
crypt cups curl dga directfb dnd dv dvd encode esd ethereal evo f77 fastcgi
fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprintgnome gphoto2 gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib innodb java javascript jikes joystick jpeg
kde ldap libwww mad maildir memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql
ncurses
nls noapm nptl odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png pnp
python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby samba sasl sdl slang slp speedo spell
sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype trusted type1 usb wmf x86 xinerama
xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zeo zlib video_cards_radeon"
Ok, I pretty much patched the output file (nvu) before the installation occurs.
It will now honor the actual /usr/lib/nvu directory as the correct location for
nvu since we don't install it in /usr/lib/mozilla or anything else for that
matter. I'm testing the actual ebuild itself and should have that ready by
tommorow morning. I had a couple of other tweaks to take care of so the lib
directories would be something more standard (/usr/lib/nvu v.
/usr/lib/nvu-0.17+), making it easier to transition a couple of things to
future versions. So that's basically what the status is :).
