Summary: | >=www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.5 should not use --enable-system-sqlite | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | major | Keywords: | InVCS |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2008.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Adam Nielsen
2009-08-28 23:55:08 UTC
It's Gentoo policy to use system libraries whenever possible. See http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/01/02/bundling-libraries-for-despair-and-insecurity Thanks for the info. I have discussed it with Mozilla and they only bundle the library because they lack the resources to test against the many different versions of sqlite available. During this discussion we discovered that Firefox (and XULRunner) crash with sqlite-3.6.17 (the latest in Portage), they require 3.6.16 to work correctly and downgrading (then recompiling xulrunner) fixed Firefox crashing on my Gentoo machine. Can we put something in Portage to force firefox and >=net-libs/xulrunner-1.9 to be compiled with sqlite-3.6.16? I had to disable it on firefox-3.0 some time ago... bug 228305 I have drop'd system support for sqlite, this will cause everyone to use bundled sqlite until I can resolve the segv. sorry for the bug spam. |