[BLFS Trac] #2595: firefox-3.0.5 / xulrunner-1.9.0.5

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#2595: firefox-3.0.5 / xulrunner-1.9.0.5
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 Reporter:  ken@…                     |       Owner:  ken@…                   
     Type:  task                      |      Status:  new                     
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  6.4                     
Component:  BOOK                      |     Version:  SVN                     
 Severity:  normal                    |    Keywords:                          
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Comment(by dj@…):

 If you rebuild NSS, due to static linking that is not easily overcome in
 the arcane coreconf build system, then you need to rebuild
 xulrunner/firefox.  Additionally, Thunderbird and Seamonky (last I
 checked) had to use the old minor versions of both.  Latest security
 patched releases are included with Firefox, Xulrunner, Thunderbird, and
 Seamonkey, _always_.  We'll have to wait for Thunderbird 3 and new
 SeaMonky to utilize the system nss/nspr for those projects.  Some of the
 information was contained in a few private emails with George Sherwood
 (SourceMage maintainer working with the Mozilla projects) whom I was
 working with at the time.  Here is a link to the roundup message where I
 had given separate build instructions, and later recommended system NSPR
 with internal NSS for mozy products.

 http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-
 dev/2008-November/019013.html

 I'm still not sure what to do about a system NSS for external projects
 that will use it, which is why I left the instructions for NSS in that
 message.  Anyway, I had thought that there are many messages leading up to
 that one prior to Novemeber, but I can't seem to find them...I'm probably
 remembering the private emails.  If you'd still like to review them, I'll
 go back and dig them up, just yell.

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