Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:42:16 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@freebsd.org>, gnome@freebsd.org, "michael johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/firefox/files patch-configure Message-ID: <cb5206420609190242j54b44fcbof32bfadac1b6d244@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200609190241.k8J2f6CM084659@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200609190241.k8J2f6CM084659@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On 9/19/06, Mikhail Teterin <mi@freebsd.org> wrote: > mi 2006-09-19 02:41:06 UTC > > FreeBSD ports repository > > Modified files: > www/firefox/files patch-configure > Log: > Add a tiny hunk to allow firefox to use our system libz instead of > building its own. Some years ago there was a security problem with > zlib-1.2.2 and firefox' configure checks the system's zlib.h to be > 1.2.3 or higher. > > FreeBSD patched the hole without bumping the version number, which > caused Firefox (and, likely, other Mozilla stuff) to build their own > versions instead (and install their headers). > > Maintainers were repeatedly notified -- most recently about a month > ago: <200608091216.00510@aldan>, <200601251926.39246.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>. > > Approved by: maintainer timeout > > Revision Changes Path > 1.3 +8 -1 ports/www/firefox/files/patch-configure > This should probably have been done somewhere in Makefile.common's post-patch target so that all related port could also use system's zlib.
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