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authorJosh Heidenreich <josh.sickmate@gmail.com>2012-02-09 18:21:10 +1030
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>2012-02-09 18:23:49 +0100
commitb469be0723812746dc22fb0a2de69499488f5a35 (patch)
tree90216be8bc9420bc3be5793acbb25e8fbefa7727 /nss
parent295cc6c5bce83c48aa92254687b2251c09115e67 (diff)
Added and improved READMEs for modules in libs-extern-sys
Diffstat (limited to 'nss')
-rwxr-xr-xnss/README (renamed from nss/readme.txt)36
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/nss/readme.txt b/nss/README
index 21d7d5487221..cd56dbe44a2e 100755
--- a/nss/readme.txt
+++ b/nss/README
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-Relation between nss, moz, moz_prebuilt
----------------------------------------
+Containes the security libraries which are also part of [[moz]]. However nss is meant to be more current.
+
+== Relation between nss, moz, moz_prebuilt ==
+
nss containes the security libraries which are also part of moz. However nss is
meant to be more current, that is it to be updated more often. This should be
-easier than doing this with moz.
+easier than doing this with moz.
If nss is build depends on an environment variable (SYSTEM_NSS=NO) which
is per default set to YES. In this case nss is build before moz. The nss
@@ -20,23 +22,24 @@ Also when moz was updated to use a newer version of mozilla, then one must make
sure that new files which also belong to nss are not delivered and are removed
from mozruntime.zip.
-Fips 140 and signed libraries
--------------------------------
+
+== Fips 140 and signed libraries ==
+
Fips 140 mode is not supported. That is, the *.chk files containing the
checksums for the cryptographic module are not delivered into solver and will
not be part of the OOo installation sets.
-Signing has been turned off because
+Signing has been turned off because
- we change the rpath (install names) after signing which breaks the signatures
(Mac)
- sqlite conflicts with the system sqlite when signing which breaks the build
-libfreebl3
-----------
+== libfreebl3 ==
+
Porting to other platforms may require to deliver other variants of
libfreebl*. The library name varies according to the platform. Changes need to
-be made to
+be made to
ooo/moz/extractfiles.mk
ooo/moz/zipped/makefile.mk
sun/moz_prebuilt/zipped/makefile.mk
@@ -45,8 +48,8 @@ See also
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tech-notes/tn6.html
-Windows builds of nss
----------------------
+== Windows builds of nss ==
+
To build mozilla on windows you'll need the mozilla build tools
Build requirements containing the link to the build tools:
@@ -56,13 +59,14 @@ The direct link:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/win32/MozillaBuildSetup-1.3.exe
-libsqlite3
-----------
+
+== libsqlite3 ==
+
The problem described here was found on Mac with OS 10.6
NSS cannot use the system sqlite on Mac because the base line is still MacOS
10.4. That system sqlite is incompatible with the softokn3 in nss which requires
-a later version of sqlite.
-When we used a more current Mac SDK then we could set
+a later version of sqlite.
+When we used a more current Mac SDK then we could set
NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1
to build using the system sqlite.
@@ -71,5 +75,5 @@ used by tools of the build environment. Using the sqlite from NSS breaks the
tools if they use system libraries which are linked with the system
sqlite. Therefore we deliver it into lib/sqlite on unix systems.
-See also issue
+See also issue
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=106132