64261 - pkcs7 should be part of the S/MIME shared library.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(NSS :: Libraries, defect, P2)

Description

[Wan-Teh Chang]

pkcs7 should be part of the S/MIME shared library.
I put it in the base NSS shared library to work
around a circular dependency between the base NSS
and S/MIME shared libraries.

The circular dependency is caused by the file
mozilla/security/nss/lib/certhigh/certread.c,
which depends on some PKCS7 symbols.

This bug does not need to be fixed in NSS 3.2 Beta
but should be fixed in Beta 2.  I can help you with
the makefile work.

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Attachment: A patch to move pkcs7 from libnss3.so to libsmime3.so. This patch contains a temp workaround to the certread.c problem.

Comment 2

[Wan-Teh Chang]

I checked in the patch (id=21762).

Comment 3

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Attachment: A patch to move certread.c from lib/certhigh to lib/pkcs7 and remove the temporary workaround in coreconf/rules.mk.

Comment 4

[Wan-Teh Chang]

After discussing with Bob and Nelson, I decided to
fix this circular dependency by moving certread.c
from lib/certhigh to lib/pkcs7.  As a result of this
move I have to export one more data symbol (SECAnyTemplate)
from libnss3.so. :-(

Comment 5

[Wan-Teh Chang]

I checked in the second patch (id=21801).