Hi,

with the patch in PR 23240 make install of MozillaFirebird
was quite successful (although regxpcom complained a lot about
unaligned access errors, but didn't core dump [does alpha
kernel resolve the unaligned accesses somehow?]).

However, the thing does not work. When I start MozillaFirebird,
the binary loads, does some work, and then exits completely
silently. I know that the program loads and starts because
.mozilla and .phoenix directories appear in my homedir.
But that's all it does: no core dumps, no error messages,
nothing, just silent exit.


Also, what's up with gdb on alpha?

 - I keep getting: "ptrace: Device busy"
 - Loading MozillaFirebird-bin under gdb, and saying "run",
   ends up with "Stopped due to shared library event"
   and "where" reports
     0 _rtld_debug_state
     1 _rtld
     2...infinity _rtld_start
 - I managed to make Firebird core dump with
   "MozillaFirebird -ProfileManager"
   but inspecting the core with gdb shows only one
   stack frame.
 - I also tried something else with gdb, and single
   stepping didn't work ("ptrace: Device busy", IIRC).

  -- Arto

P.S. please CC me, not on the list (yet)