FreeBSD Port: devel/glib20 *URGENT* ( updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug 833117 which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird )

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robert Burmeister <
Robert.Burmeister at utoledo.edu> wrote:

> You do realize, updating glib20 to version 2.36.3 invokes bug
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=833117<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117>
> which disables recent versions of Firefox and Thunderbird?
>
> Might I suggest chatting with the Mozilla team about their progress?
>

Can anyone confirm that this impacts FreeBSD?  Since the issue seems to be
with the memory allocator in Linux, I am not at all certain that it applies
to FreeBSD. Things like that are often very OS specific. Even on Linux some
people are not seeing it.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com