Re: Firefox 38.8.0 Beta 7 released

Dave Yeo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.os2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dave Yeo wrote:
> On 06/16/16 10:38 PM, Lars Erdmann wrote:
>> Am 17.06.16 um 05.34 schrieb Dave Yeo:
>>> Lars Erdmann wrote:
>>>> I figured that some DLLs from the Thunderbird distribution could be
>>>> deleted as they are also contained in \usr\lib (if you use yum/rpm
>>>> ...).
>>>> The ones that had to be left in where:
>>>> ldap60.dll
>>>> ldif60.dll
>>>> mozalloc.dll
>>>> mozqslt3.dll
>>>> prldap60.dll
>>>> xul.dll
>>>
>>> They'll be a few more once I get SM/TB compiling with the external NSS
>>> and NSPR packages (I'm having problems building ssldap60.dll where they
>>> didn't build an OS/2 DEF file for some reason)

Hmm, got it building but the extra DLLs weren't installed

>>> Does secure connections work with TB the way you have it set? Others
>>> reported errors about the security center (Netscape era error message)
>>> when trying to use Firefox with the SM NSS and NSPR dlls.
>>>
>>
>> "secure connections": You mean sending/receiving via ports 587,993,563 ?
>
> Interesting, I'll have to experiment.
>
>> Yes, that works (or rather: I get no error on email receive/transmit).
>> What is the "security center" ?
>
> At one time nss was a separate product, at least in some markets and you
> had to install the security center (might have the name slightly wrong)
> to use secure connections.
>
>> My NSS and NSPR dlls (nss3.dll, nspr4.dll) are only in \usr\lib and
>> nowhere else.

I built SM with native NSPR and NSS and it is running fine. I launched 
TB first so I assume it is using all the TB DLLs including xul.dll. Have 
to rebuild TB now
Dave
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