Hi all,
Recently we had a discussion about using the Mozilla NSPR/NSS package
as a stand-alone package for BLFS. This would allow Firefox, Thunderbird
and the Mozilla suite to share the system-installed copies of these
libraries and interface headers, as well as having them installed in
/usr for any other package (Evolution, Epiphany, etc) that may also
utilize them.
It is now doable. The recent tarballs of the NSPR/NSS packages (the
most recent NSS combines the two), are exactly the same versions used
in Firefox-1.5 and Thunderbird-1.5, build without a hitch and pass
the entire (and very extensive) test suite. NSS and NSPR is backward
compatible as it goes forward, assuring us that we could update the
NSS/NSPR packages knowing it will work correctly with the Moz packages.
Many distros are now doing this, in fact, there is a couple of patches
required to make it happen. A small patch for the NSS package to create
a .pc file and an nss-config program, and a patch (from Fedora) that
applies to the Moz products as the --with-system-nss switch does not
work correctly as is. The --with-system-nspr switch *does* work as
it is supposed to.
I have built Thunderbird already using system-installed versions of NSS
and NSPR and it works perfectly. In fact, the binaries created are
identical as best as I can tell. A cmp doesn't show exact matches, but
then, even building Thunderbird exactly the same way twice will not
produce binaries that match byte-for-byte (there are only two bytes that
change in many of the binaries).
Anyway here is some comparisons. The 'tbird' directory shown below is
the current build using system-installed versions, the 'tbird03' dir
is one built using in-tree versions. Both directories are what is
produced from using 'make -f client.mk install' after building:
(files not found are because they are not created and not installed as
they are the NSS/NSPR libraries that are system-installed. The NSS/NSPR
interface headers are not copied into the .../include/thunderbird-1.5
directory either as they are already on the system before building
Thunderbird, Firefox, etc.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ > for FILENAME in `find tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5
-maxdepth 1 \
-type f | sed 's|^.*/.*/||'`
do
ls -Gg tbird{,03}/lib/thunderbird-1.5/$FILENAME ; echo
done
-rwxr-xr-x 1 196747 Jan 19 11:58 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libldap50.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 196747 Jan 18 20:22 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libldap50.so
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libnspr4.so: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 199232 Jan 18 20:22 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libnspr4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 611228 Jan 19 11:59 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libmozjs.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 611228 Jan 18 20:23 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libmozjs.so
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libplds4.so: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 8968 Jan 18 20:22 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libplds4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 28388 Jan 19 11:58 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpt_dump
-rwxr-xr-x 1 28388 Jan 18 20:22 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpt_dump
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libplc4.so: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 15636 Jan 18 20:22 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libplc4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 19714 Jan 19 11:58 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libprldap50.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 19714 Jan 18 20:22 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libprldap50.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 10492 Oct 1 00:36 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/run-mozilla.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 10492 Oct 1 00:36 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/run-mozilla.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 22280 Jan 19 11:58 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpt_link
-rwxr-xr-x 1 22280 Jan 18 20:22 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpt_link
-rwxr-xr-x 1 80636 Jan 19 11:58 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpidl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 80636 Jan 18 20:22 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpidl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 642640 Jan 19 12:00 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libxpcom_core.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 642640 Jan 18 20:24 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libxpcom_core.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 10064 Jan 19 12:00 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libxpcom.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 10064 Jan 18 20:24 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libxpcom.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 30068 Jan 19 12:00 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/regxpcom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 30068 Jan 18 20:24 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/regxpcom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 100352 Jan 19 12:00 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libxpcom_compat.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 100352 Jan 18 20:24 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libxpcom_compat.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20532 Jan 19 12:01 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpcshell
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20532 Jan 18 20:25 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpcshell
-rwxr-xr-x 1 14332 Jan 19 12:02 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libgtkxtbin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 14332 Jan 18 20:26 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libgtkxtbin.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 7980 Jan 19 12:05 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libgfxpsshar.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 7980 Jan 18 20:29 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libgfxpsshar.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 120256 Jan 19 12:05 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libgkgfx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 120256 Jan 18 20:29 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libgkgfx.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 11620 Jan 19 12:32 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/mozilla-xremote-client
-rwxr-xr-x 1 11620 Jan 18 20:55
tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/mozilla-xremote-client
-rwxr-xr-x 1 76680 Jan 19 12:32 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/updater
-rwxr-xr-x 1 76680 Jan 18 20:55 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/updater
-rwxr-xr-x 1 31708 Jan 19 12:33 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpicleanup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 31708 Jan 18 20:56 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/xpicleanup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 7588 Jan 19 12:33 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libxpistub.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 7588 Jan 18 20:56 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libxpistub.so
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libnssckbi.so: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 285225 Jan 18 20:57 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libnssckbi.so
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libsoftokn3.chk: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 476 Jan 18 20:57 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libsoftokn3.chk
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libsoftokn3.so: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 538206 Jan 18 20:56 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libsoftokn3.so
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libnss3.so: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 572862 Jan 18 20:57 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libnss3.so
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libssl3.so: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 163999 Jan 18 20:57 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libssl3.so
ls: tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libsmime3.so: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 188598 Jan 18 20:57 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libsmime3.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 74872 Jan 19 12:50 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/thunderbird-bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 74872 Jan 18 21:14 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/thunderbird-bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 78108 Jan 19 12:50 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libgtkembedmoz.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 78108 Jan 18 21:15 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/libgtkembedmoz.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20432 Jan 19 12:50 tbird/lib/thunderbird-1.5/TestGtkEmbed
-rwxr-xr-x 1 20432 Jan 18 21:15 tbird03/lib/thunderbird-1.5/TestGtkEmbed
--
Randy
rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3]
[GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686]
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