On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Dean McNamee <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't understand why we need to import all of this code just so we > can build an .so. > > Why don't we just take the .so's from the 32-bit package we're already > using, and stick them into our .deb? We can check them into svn if > don't want developers to have to have it, but that problem is already > solved by the install script. > > Tracking third_party source (security updates, etc) is a huge pain, > and has caused a lot of problems in the past. Also, having to build > it seems pointless.
This idea also occurred to me. Chromium only needs the NSS/NSPR headers and the .so's for Linux. The only issue is that the NSS/NSPR .so's we check into the source tree need to work on all x86 Linux distributions that we support. I don't know the state of binary compatibility across Linux distributions today. Perhaps it works -- I believe that's how Adobe distributes its Flash plugins. Another idea is to work harder with Ubuntu to provide the "ia32" NSPR/NSS libs for x86_64 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. That'd be the best solution but require a lot of red tape. Wan-Teh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
