282864 - Unnecessary dependency on glib 1.x, libIDL 0.6 legacy libraries

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; en_US) KHTML/3.3.2 (like Gecko)
Build Identifier: firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2

A normal build of firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2 links to ancient obsolete  
libraries (glib 1.x, libIDL 0.6.x), even though the code is ready to run with  
the newer (and more standard) versions glib 2.x and libIDL 0.8.x.  
  
The problem is the configure script preferring the ancient stuff for no 
visible reason. I'm attaching a patch to fix this (prefer the current stuff 
and fall back to the legacy stuff if the current stuff doesn't exist). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove legacy libraries (glib 1.x etc.) from your system 
2. ./configure 
3. make 
 
Actual Results:  
Numerous complains about a missing glib.h (even though glib 2.x is there and 
provides the functions the firefox parts are using) 

Expected Results:  
Should have compiled

Comment 1

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

Attachment: Fix

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

What .mozconfig did you use? I'm not quite sure if your patch is valid.

Comment 3

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

No .mozconfig... Downloaded the tarball and ./configure-d. 
 
As for the patch's correctness, it works 100% at least on Linux; we're 
applying it in the Ark Linux package and none of our users is complaining 
about any problems w/ it. 
 

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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