alex lupu wrote:
>> Bruce wrote:
>> There are definitely problems with the patch.
>> I'm working on another project right now, but I'll try to analyze
>> what needs to be done later if Armin doesn't get to it first.
>
> Obviously, I'm willing and ready to help
> (as for the able, it remains to be seen).
>
> Part of the offered help (I hope):
>
> Originally, at my OP, without the patch, I could
> compile (make) without any problems.  At install time,
>
> the only problems were the missing 'nss-config' and
> and 'nss.pc' (coincidentally, the items 2 and 3 respectively, of
> my latest post - which was actually a quick and dirty fix of problems
> created(?) by the patch).
>
> In retrospect, I could've "manually" scrounged up these two files
> from somewhere in the tree (as a quick and _clean_ fix).
> I'll try that now in a more organized way and post the results
> (it might just be the patch has become too elaborate for its
> own good, as of v1.5, so two "manual" commands instead shouldn't hurt).

That should help, but there shouldn't need to be any symlinks created. 
In the patch, there are a couple of symlinks, but I'd prefer to jsut
cp them to $DIST and then the book's instructions should be OK.  That 
makes $DIST stand alone.

   -- Bruce

> FOR REFERENCE, my previous ("latest") post technicals:
>
> [With the patch,] In order to have the
>
> 1.  'make' succeed I had to change
>   "CORE_DEPTH = ../.." to "CORE_DEPTH = ../"
>
> and to have this succeed
>
> 2. 'install -v -m755 Linux*/bin/{...,nss-config,...} /usr/bin'
>   I had to do
>    ln -fs ../../../nss/config/nss-config Linux*/bin/nss-config
>
> and this one
>
> 3. 'install -v -m644 Linux*/lib/pkgconfig/nss.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig'
>   I had to do
>    ln -fs ../../../../nss/config/nss.pc Linux*/lib/pkgconfig/nss.pc
>
> Cheers,
> -- Alex
>
>
>


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