673899 - Port bug 552864 - Throw away wrapper shell script on unix and lazily load libxul

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 668869

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #552864 +++

We need to port the work in bug 552864 to Thunderbird. There are some reasons for this:

1) DLL Blocklisting is broken until we do at least part of the port (not good).

2) There should be significant start-up performance improvements, especially when combined with bug 632404.

tracking+ for 7 because we need this due to the DLL blocklisting issue.

To fix this we need to port the browser/ parts of:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8ae2a073b044
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c4bbac1f178b

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1) DLL Blocklisting is broken until we do at least part of the port (not
> good).

I'd interested to know what broke, because the intent was to *not* break the current uses.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Also, bug 658847 should help, here.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Mike is right, the DLL blocklist isn't broken as I thought it was (I'd missed how the change was done). We can just pick this up when we're ready.

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Dependent/Duplicate of bug 668869?

Comment 5

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Yeah, this was fixed in bug 668869