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  1. Bug #518422
  2. Comment #108

Comment 108 for bug 518422

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In , Mh+mozilla (mh+mozilla) wrote :

Created attachment 472256
workaround for mac

So, I haven't found out (yet) what and why exactly, but what happens is that something on mac doesn't like that the components directory isn't normalized on mac. It's most probably related to bug 530188. The simplest "fix" I found is to normalize in nsDirectoryService::GetCurrentProcessDir (interestingly, the unix codepath uses realpath against MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME, so the patch makes it somewhat more close to what the unix codepath does).
This also explains why the test fails in the harness, where it is started as $BUILD_DIR/xpcom/tests/../../dist/bin/TestRegistrationOrder, and not when run by hand with $BUILD_DIR/dist/bin/TestRegistrationOrder. (running ./TestRegistrationOrder naturally fails, too)