Hi Herbert,
On 08.11.2013 13:18, Herbert Duerr wrote:
As discussed in the thread "AOO Security Features without Mozilla" I
removed the dependency on the ancient Seamonkey-1.1 binaries and use
the NSS libraries ("Network Security Services") instead. This major
rework has been integrated into trunk now.
If you are working on trunk you'll notice that the moz module and the
configure switch named --disable-mozilla is gone. This switch was
sometimes used to build Apache OpenOffice without security services.
If you want to continue building without security services please use
the --disable-nss-module instead. Whether such an insecure AOO build
is something to aim for is dubious though, especially since the
biggest hurdles to enable this functionality have been removed which
were:
- building the Seamonkey-1.1 using special old compiler versions
- providing zip-archives of such prebuilt Seamonkey-1.1 binaries
are no longer needed. Good riddance.
Yippie! Congrats!
If you are working on Windows then you'll notice that the
--with-mozilla-build option is still there as NSS being part of the
Mozilla project needs the Mozilla build environment. If you object to
install the Mozilla build environment then you couldn't build the
moz+nss modules on Windows then and cannot build nss on Windows now.
Please use the --disable-nss-module or the --disable-category-B
switches if providing the Mozilla build environment for NSS is out of
the question.
Is there a way to get around this...? Maybe nss can be 'replaced'
somehow...?
As shown in the earlier thread on this topic the address books
provided via the old Seamonkey binaries were quite bit-rotten and
often didn't work on modern systems. There is a good chance that their
successors will be ready for AOO 4.1 and solve most current problems.
Volunteers who'd like to dive right into AOO's SDBC subsytem and write
drivers for Mork, LDAP or MAB address book formats are welcome.
Especially power users of the older implementations who suffered their
shortcomings may find this chance interesting.
With the Seamonkey-1.1 compatibility requirement removed it was now
also possible to do an overdue update of the security critical NSS
libraries to their latest released version. Thanks to Pedro for his
initial patch on the platform-independent part of the library update.
Herbert
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