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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Old Firefox ebuild?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:15:25
Message-Id: 20161021171055.4993.3457FA7B@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old Firefox ebuild? by Andy Mender
1 On 2016-10-21 15:09, Andy Mender wrote:
2
3 > On 21 October 2016 at 14:10, Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 > > Andy Mender <andymenderunix@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > > > linked against shared libraries from the nss and nspr packages (in
7 > > > /usr/lib64), instead of the bundled ones in /usr/lib64/palemoon.
8 > >
9 > > If you know this from an ldd output only, this is misleading:
10 > > It's shared libraries, i.e. palemoon will actually use those
11 > > corresponding to the LDPATH when the binary is started;
12 > > I suppose LDPATH is set appropriately from some starting wrapper
13 >
14 >
15 > I think you've accidentally taken someone else's words as mine when
16 > replying.
17 > I never wrote anything about shared libraries.
18
19 I wrote that.
20
21 Indeed I'd used ldd, but only as a corroborating step; the primary
22 problem was that portage refused to remove the nspr and nss libraries
23 (ie. "preserved" them), thinking (rightly or wrongly I don't know) that
24 pale moon was dependent upon them.
25
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