libmozjs-dev provides xulrunner-js.pc which is incompatible with Debian's libmozjs-dev which provides mozilla-js.pc

[Michel Briand]

Binary package hint: xulrunner-1.9

I'm trying to package a software that needs libmozjs.

On Debian I get my package to build with

pkg-config [...] mozilla-js

But on Ubuntu the provided pkg config file (xulrunner-js.pc) is different.
Which renders the build system incompatible.

libmozjs-dev on Ubuntu should rename the .pc file the same as Debian : mozilla-js.pc.

[Matthew Flaschen (matthew-flaschen)]

I need the pkg's mozilla-js, mozilla-plugin, and libxul-unstable in order to build icedtea. However, Ubuntu only provides mozilla-js-1.9.pc, mozilla-plugin-1.9.pc, libxul-1.9.pc.

[Jaromil (jaromil)]

not only the naming scheme is a problem.

apps will fail to link libmozjs since the library is compiled without -DJS_THREADSAFE
and to the contrary the .pc file xulrunner-js adopts -DJS_THREADSAFE in the CFLAGS
this will generate such an error:

undefined reference to `js_GetSlotThreadSafe(JSContext*, JSObject*, unsigned int)'

since that function is #ifdef enclosed by the aforementioned flag at compile time.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.