[gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?

[gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does 
for xulrunner and firefox?  AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's 
sqlite instead of bundled sqlite.  Which seems saner.  But recently, the 
default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).

Why?

Re: [gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does for
> xulrunner and firefox?  AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite
> instead of bundled sqlite.  Which seems saner.  But recently, the default in
> the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).
>
> Why?

From looking at the Changelog it appears there have been issues in the
past when using external sqlite (there are some bug numbers
mentioned). It appears the sqlite USE flag was just added in the
3.5.3-r1 ebuild.

Re: [gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does
> for xulrunner and firefox?  AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's
> sqlite instead of bundled sqlite.  Which seems saner.  But recently, the
> default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).
>
> Why?

This is from the Changelog:

20 Jun 2008; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org>
  -mozilla-firefox-3.0.ebuild, +mozilla-firefox-3.0-r1.ebuild:
Don't use external sqlite, since it seems to give some problems, bug
#228305, and fix bindist icon, bug #228317

and, more recently, 

25 Oct 2009; Jory A. Pratt <anarchy@gentoo.org>
  +mozilla-firefox-3.5.3-r1.ebuild:
  remove iceweasel support in favor of icecat, do not build sqlite system
  support if disabled in xulrunner

30 Aug 2009; Jory A. Pratt <anarchy@gentoo.org>
  -mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r1.ebuild, +mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r2.ebuild:
  drop system sqlite support in 3.5.x until segv fixed.

[gentoo-user] Re: What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/26/2009 06:30 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does
>> for xulrunner and firefox?  AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's
>> sqlite instead of bundled sqlite.  Which seems saner.  But recently, the
>> default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).
>>
>> Why?
>
> This is from the Changelog:
>[...]

Damn, and I'm usually the first to point out to people that they should 
read the ChangeLogs :P  Sorry for the noise.