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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