Closed Bug 237423 Opened 21 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Spidermonkey should build shared and static libraries independently

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
JavaScript Engine
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INACTIVE

People

(Reporter: tenthumbs, Unassigned)

Details

On ELF platforms like Linux linking non-pic code into a shared library usually means the dynamic linker has to do "text relocations" which means having to write into normally read-only areas to do fixups. There's no guarantee that will work on all ELF platforms and it's sure to cause a significant increase in startup time. Since most machines are reasonably fast these these days it shouldn't be a big issue.
Anyone have a patch? /be
Is this a standalone-spidermonkey bug or a JS-in-mozilla bug?
Not a mozilla bug. All mozilla libraries are now compiled correctly.
-> default qa
QA Contact: pschwartau → general
related to bug 97954
Assignee: general → nobody

Old bug and the build system has change over the years, so this issue is hardly relevant anymore.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
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