[gentoo-dev] Re: Mozilla "patch" for flash/linux/GCC3.1

["Ian Phillips" <ianp@tibco.com>]

Hmmm, maybe the correct ebuild for this would be GCC3.1, then it's available to 
any other app that needs it.

This leaves us the problem of how to alter other apps to preload this patch. 
Could we make it a system wide environment setting? Would this break anything if 
all programs preloaded this lib?

That's a bad solution though. But the other option would be to patch every 
broken ebuild (admittedly, at present the only one I know of is Flash).

Here's my proposal then:

1. Patch GCC3.1 to build the shared library. This makes it available for any app
    that needs it. At the moment we only know about Flash, but it could in theory
    be anything that we install as a binary from a commercial vendor.
2. Patch Flash to check for a GCC3.1 based system. If found patch the mozilla
    start script to "export LD_PRELOAD=${LD_PRELOAD}:/usr/lib/libgcchack.so"
3. Patch any other app the same way if and when they are found.

Then we can remove individual patches from apps when the vendors make GCC3.1 
friendly releases.

Yours,
Ian.

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