Hi Johnny
> On 12/1/22 01:00, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> On 11/30/22 11:41, Chris Schanzle via CentOS-devel wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the reference, Simon. [tl;dr: delays due to CentOS folks
>>>> repeating tremendous effort RH already solved.] While I am grateful
>>>> for
>>>> everyone's time and efforts, it is hard to understand why there isn't
>>>> more technology transfer within RH to the CentOS folks if they're one
>>>> big happy family. And disappointing there is no communication on this
>>>> issue here.
>>>>
>>>> With vulnerable internet-interacting apps like Thunderbird and Firefox
>>>> (possibly others), IMHO CentOS 7 is unsafe for general use.
>>>> Effectively
>>>> EOL. I'm sad, but no time for self pity when there's work to replace
>>>> the OS on our systems...
>>>>
>>>> Thank you, CentOS team. Incredible success for many years - I've
>>>> enjoyed the ride with you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> These (firefox and thunderbird) are now released.
>>
>> Hi Johnny and all,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your hard work on this, it's much appreciated!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
>
> NOTE: We can not get Firefox/Thunderbird to build on ppc/ppc64 or
> armhfp right now, it is likely that either it will no longer be
> supported on these or certainly not until later on. Several of the
> 'toolsets' that I need are not building cleanly on those arches.
>
> The aarch64 are ppc64le builds are building ok, but still being tested
> before release.
>
> I was also trying to do all 7 architectures for both of these. Moving
> forward,it seems that the only ones we can reliably build are x86_64,
> i686, aarch64 and ppc64le for CentOS Linux 7.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
While we are at it, I saw the following lines in /usr/bin/thunderbird and
it looks like %RHEL_ENV_VARS% should be replaced at build time.
Can someone tell me what is there instead on a RHEL system?
Thanks,
Simon
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# BEAST fix (rhbz#1005611)
NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV=${NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV-1}
export NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IV
# Linux version specific environment variables
%RHEL_ENV_VARS%
exec $MOZ_PROGRAM "$@"