Bug 123321 – Missing embedstring static library

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Bug 123321 - Missing embedstring static library

Summary:	Missing embedstring static library

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	firefox (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Christopher Aillon
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2004-05-16 22:02 EDT by Braden McDaniel
Modified:	2014-05-28 05:50 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-10-29 16:36:49 EST
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Description Braden McDaniel 2004-05-16 22:02:39 EDT

Description of problem:
The nsEmbedString.h header is included; however, the corresponding
static library (libembedstring_s.a) is missing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.6-8

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2005-04-26 12:14:51 EDT

Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for
security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please
reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a
security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or
in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.

Comment 2 Braden McDaniel 2006-07-11 22:11:32 EDT

This issue is still present in FC5.

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2006-07-11 22:17:49 EDT

Thanks very much for rechecking this.

Comment 4 Christopher Aillon 2006-10-29 13:22:24 EST

We don't ship static libraries intentionally.

Comment 5 Braden McDaniel 2006-10-29 16:26:08 EST

The point is that there is a header installed for which there is no
corresponding library installed. AFAIK, this library is only available as a
static library. Either omitting the library is a mistake, or installing the
library's corresponding headers is a mistake.

Comment 6 Christopher Aillon 2006-10-29 16:36:49 EST

The header is part of the SDK, so it stays.  If you do a make; make install you
get it when --enable-static is not passed to configure.  If you think this
should not be installed in a standard make install, then this probably should
get filed upstream, but this is not a bug in Fedora's packages.

Comment 7 Braden McDaniel 2006-10-29 18:15:17 EST

Don't you also get libembedstring_s.a when --enable-static is not passed to
configure? The "we don't ship static libraries" policy doesn't make sense when a
static library is all that's installed.

Comment 8 Christopher Aillon 2006-10-29 18:35:37 EST

No.  It's not installed, and I don't remove it manually.

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