[gentoo-user] Re: Old Firefox ebuild?

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@primate.net>]

On 2016-10-21 15:09, Andy Mender wrote:

> On 21 October 2016 at 14:10, Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:
> 
> > Andy Mender <andymenderunix@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > linked against shared libraries from the nss and nspr packages (in
> > > /usr/lib64), instead of the bundled ones in /usr/lib64/palemoon.
> >
> > If you know this from an ldd output only, this is misleading:
> > It's shared libraries, i.e. palemoon will actually use those
> > corresponding to the LDPATH when the binary is started;
> > I suppose LDPATH is set appropriately from some starting wrapper
> 
> 
> I think you've accidentally taken someone else's words as mine when
> replying.
> I never wrote anything about shared libraries.

I wrote that.

Indeed I'd used ldd, but only as a corroborating step; the primary
problem was that portage refused to remove the nspr and nss libraries
(ie. "preserved" them), thinking (rightly or wrongly I don't know) that
pale moon was dependent upon them.

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