126923 - NSS tests do not run on OS/2

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(NSS :: Libraries, defect, P3)

Description

[Julien Pierre]

Many NSS tests don't run on OS/2, though they do build. The reason I'm filing
this under a component of "libraries" rather than tests is because much of the
support in NSS is missing for many of the applications to run under OS/2. Enough
work was done by the IBM and open-source folks to get the code to compile and
the code useful for the client to run on OS/2, but for servers and some other
tools, the code is just assertions at the moment. I have a great interest in
making the library usable on OS/2 for server apps too, not just the client.

This is a general tracking defect for all tests overall. Dependencies will be
added for individual cases.
Some of the problems that cause NSS to fail are also caused by omissions in the
OS/2 version of NSPR and will be added as dependencies too.

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Changed the QA contact to Bishakha.

Comment 2

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Set target milestone to NSS 3.5.

Comment 3

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Assigned the bug to Julien.

Comment 4

[Julien Pierre]

Mike, Javier,

If you are interested in looking at this and finding possible problems with the
security library on OS/2, the way to try to run the tests is :

1. First build NSS standalone
cd mozilla/security/nss
gmake nss_build_all

2. Run the tests
cd mozilla/security/nss/tests
sh all.sh

Comment 5

[Julien Pierre]

Is there any interest from the IBM side in getting this to work ?

Comment 6

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Not really.

As long as the client works, we're OK.

Comment 7

[Julien Pierre]

Resolving wontfix . I don't have the cycles to get this going. If OS/2-specific
security problems show up that can't be diagnosed, we can revisit this bug.