Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of nss

Timestamp:

12/22/2023 02:07:32 PM (4 months ago)

Author:

pierre

Comment:

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 = NSS =
 
-== For those who do not automatically update nss and nspr ==
+== For those who do not automatically update nspr before building nss==
 
 The BLFS patch to create a pkgconfig file adds a Makefile to extract the minimum required nspr version using code that translates to
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 The main page there always points to the latest version and may, or may not, mention a revised minimum nspr version. If it does not, and you need to know the current minimum without looking at the nss source, you can scroll down the left panel of that page in firefox or falkon to find the Release Notes for previous versions (or in links and lynx the links to releases come before the current text).
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-== Very old notes, retained in case still useful to someone ==
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-=== ppc64 ===
- On ppc64, building 32-bit barfs on -z defs when CC is overridden to "gcc -m32".  Use the patch at [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/nss/nss-3.11-zdefs-1.patch] and read the instructions in it.
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-=== Test Suite: CRL tests ===
-cert.sh uses the local time when creating revocation lists. This can cause
-a number of tests (130 out of 800) to fail.
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-'''Fix:'''
-{{{
-cd mozilla/security/nss/tests/cert/ &&
-sed 's/date "*+%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ"*/date -u "+%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ"/g' < cert.sh \
-    > cert.sh.tmp && mv cert.sh.tmp cert.sh
-}}}
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-== x86 ==
- NSS is unlikely to compile with MAKEFLAGS set to "-j 2". The build process relies on files that it creates for itself very early in the process, so make sure to turn off multi-threaded builds for this one (though it is not recommended that you use the "-j 2" option at all).
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