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On 04/14/2017 11:25 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> On 2017-04-14 21:30, Corbin Bird wrote: |
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>>>> Please take a look at what version of "binutils" && "binutils-libs" |
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>>>> you are compiling Palemoon with. ( yes, two separate packages. ) |
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>> Both packages need to be the same version |
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>> ( i.e. v2.25.x && v2.25.x, etc. ) |
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>> I posted in the Palemoon "bug report / linux" forum about this. |
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>> https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=15110 |
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> assemblerhead - I like that :) |
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> But, all this is just stabs in the dark. Do we know what the cursed |
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> elf-hack actually does? Why is it enabled by default? |
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Don't know the answer to that question. |
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A simple guess is a compatibility fix for Linux. Making the files |
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readable and executable. |
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Linux uses the Executable Linkable Format ( elf ). Windows uses the |
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Dynamic Link Library format ( dll ). The primary branch of Palemoon is |
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"run-on-Windows" based. |
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Corbin |
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