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[Bug build/17956] Build fails on missing definitions from header file nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
- From: "carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 16:59:04 +0000
- Subject: [Bug build/17956] Build fails on missing definitions from header file nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
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- References: <bug-17956-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17956
--- Comment #20 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Guido Trentalancia from comment #19)
> My opinion is that GNU libc should be robust even to "alternative"
> configurations such as the one presented above. So that is why, I believe
> all patches should be applied:
I disagree. The complexity is not worth the maintenance cost. You cannot add
arbitrary directories to CPPFLAGS when building glibc.
> [2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-05/msg00738.html (fixes the
> GNU libc build system to correctly detect and use Mozilla NSPR)
This is the right strategy.
Could you please work with Adhemerval to determine why it fails in his
particular configuration?
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