761367 - Need libexpat on test machines

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

As part of webrtc, we're building a second copy of expat (used in webrtc signaling), this one using 'normal' style (chars instead of PR_UniChars like our internal libxul expat).  On Windows, this also lives in gkmedia of course.

It would be nice to leverage system libexpat if we can (and if we feel safe security-wise) and avoid the duplication.  However, right now the test machines don't have expat installed it appears, though the builders appear to.  Note that when I build locally on Fedora 15, even with using internal expat, I end up with an expat entry in ldd of libxul.so.

Comment 1

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

This would suggest that all users who install webrtc builds would also have to install libexpat, no?  We try not to install any libraries on the test machines so we know that we're not shipping with external dependencies.

Comment 2

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

I'm going to land initially without relying on -lexpat, but we still want to examine if we can avoid including it in our code (a second time).

Comment 3

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Ok.  Is there something actionable here, or should we close this bug until there is?

Comment 4

[Randell Jesup [:jesup] (needinfo me)]

resolving until there's a decision to require it