updating security/nss

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Jul 28 04:34:37 GMT 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:31 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 July 2005 11:26 pm, you wrote:
> = Thanks, but I have already been testing my own update to NSS, and that
> = will be committed when I'm done.  Check the archives of this list for
> = diff.
> 
> Great. I hope, you'll find it possible to use some of the features of my
> version nevertheless. In particular:
> 
> 	. do not build/use NSS' own version of -lz;
> 	. do not build/use NSS' own version of db (patch-sysdb);
> 	. patch the tests, so they can be used automatically;
> 	. fix a lot of compiler warnings and some warning-identified
> 	  bugs.

The tests will not be run automatically.  Most users don't care about
this, and Kris is working on creating a regression framework for package
builds on the cluster.

As for the other things, you're free to modify the diff I sent out to
the gnome list.

> 
> Yours,
> 
> 	-mi
> 
> P.S. I just realized, that our recent upgrade of devel/nspr should've
> bumped the major library version(s) :-( The new version provides some
> stuff, that is required to build the browsers -- without the major
> number bump, the browsers will not be able to LIB_DEPEND properly.

The browsers use their own version of nspr.

Joe

> 
> 
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