nspr-4.8.0

[Sven Hankel]

there is no combined tarball, so I made my own (attached) The modifyed *.pc-files and nss-config are included. Unfortunately, it is to big for an attachement.

to make it, simply unpack nss-3.12.3.tar.gz and nspr-4.8.tar.gz and copy the content from one directory to the other. Because the redhat-patch does not really work, You have to create the *.pc-files by Your own or You can use the attached ones.

Hint: If You want to utilise sqlite3 on Your system, You should install it before nss+nspr.

Then change the build instructions:

bash

export WORKINGDIR=$PWD &&
export BUILD_OPT=1 &&
export NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1  &&

cd mozilla/security/nss &&
make nss_build_all &&
cd ../.. &&

export NSS_LINUXDIR=$(basename `ls -d $WORKINGDIR/mozilla/dist/Linux*`)

go on in setup as described in the book...

this ensures, that the components are linked against the installed sqlite3, otherwise, it will overwrite files from sqlite3 and compromise Your system (unresolved symbols in sqlite3 and so on)

test summaries: PASSED: 5344 FAILED: 6

[Randy McMurchy]

Modified milestone from 6.4 to 6.5

[ken@…]

Didn't see the comemnts in this until I'd already built nss. I've using my own patches and scripting derived from fedora to get the -config and .pc files correct. FWIW there seems to be a problem getting nss to find the nspr headers. I used to use [ WHERE is the prefix ]

echo "INCLUDES += -I${WHERE}/include/nspr" >>mozilla/security/coreconf/headers.mk

but now I'm using the following (first noticed this at gobolinux

export NSPR_INCLUDE_DIR=${WHERE}/include/nspr

Also still using

export USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=1
export ZLIB_LIBS=-lz

[Guy Dalziel]

NSS contains an internal copy of sqlite, it calls this file libsqlite3.so which is then copied in to /usr/lib. Doing this overwrites the system sqlite which has a library of the same name, and this causes firefox 3.5 to fail compilation. If someone has sqlite installed then they will need to use 'export NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1'.

[DJ Lucas]

I think I'm going to recommend the use of system sqlite3 for the reason above. Instructions will be tailored for it so that users don't bork their system.

[DJ Lucas]

Duplicate of #2718 and #2882.

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Milestone 6.5 deleted