johst wrote, On 2008-09-11 18:31: > I must apologise for wasting your time with something that was not > really an issue. When you asked about whether I had downloaded the > mozilla sources or used my distributor's (gentoo) I was about to > answer that I downloaded the sources from mozilla.org and built NSS > from there, but this prompted me to check whether gentoo had this in > their package list to emerge. What I found was that they had 3.11, and > it was already installed on the same machine. I was using the correct > binary (3.12) but the wrong libraries (3.11).
Thanks for the explanation. This wasn't a waste of time at all! This tells me that, although NSS has a way for the tools (utility programs) to check that they are using the correct libraries, the tools are not using it. Consequently, when 3.12 tools are used with 3.11 libraries, they do not detect that problem (they're supposed to!), which leads to all this effort spent diagnosing a problem that should be self diagnosing! So, the bug to be reported here is: (some of) the tools don't check the version of the shared libraries that they're using. That's a valuable bug report. Thanks! _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
