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

[Ian Phillips]

Hi,

I've not gotten around to learning how to create/modify ebuilds myself yet, so 
I'm submitting this here in the hope that some worthy sould will take this and 
run with it.

Problem:
If mozilla is built with GCC3.x then loading flash or java plugins causes it to 
crash. Bummer. This is bug 124006 in mozillas bug database.

Solution:
Write a small patch library to supply the reuired missing functions and preload 
it (e.g. LD_PRELOAD=libmozhack.so). The required code is attached to this, mail. 
See, it's really trivial, build it with "gcc -shared -fPIC -o libmozhack.so 
libmozhack.c && strip libmozhack.so"

So I suggest that a revision of the mozilla ebuild includes the following logic:

do-usual-stuff;
if (gcc-3-based-build) {
   copy mozhack.c from ebuild-files-dir to work-dir;
   build libmozhack.so
   copy libmozhack.so to /usr/lib/mozilla
   patch mozilla shell script to preload libmozhack.so
}

What do people think?

Ian.

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