cvs commit: ports/www/firefox/files patch-configure
Andrew Pantyukhin
infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 19 02:42:19 PDT 2006
On 9/19/06, Mikhail Teterin <mi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> mi 2006-09-19 02:41:06 UTC
>
> FreeBSD ports repository
>
> Modified files:
> www/firefox/files patch-configure
> Log:
> Add a tiny hunk to allow firefox to use our system libz instead of
> building its own. Some years ago there was a security problem with
> zlib-1.2.2 and firefox' configure checks the system's zlib.h to be
> 1.2.3 or higher.
>
> FreeBSD patched the hole without bumping the version number, which
> caused Firefox (and, likely, other Mozilla stuff) to build their own
> versions instead (and install their headers).
>
> Maintainers were repeatedly notified -- most recently about a month
> ago: <200608091216.00510 at aldan>, <200601251926.39246.mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com>.
>
> Approved by: maintainer timeout
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.3 +8 -1 ports/www/firefox/files/patch-configure
>
This should probably have been done somewhere in Makefile.common's
post-patch target so that all related port could also use system's zlib.
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