[CentOS-devel] Fwd: [CentOS] CentOS 7: Missing Thunderbird Updates

Fri Dec 2 15:14:55 UTC 2022
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 12/2/22 01:53, Tomáš Popela wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 8:30 AM Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch 
> <mailto:simon.matter at invoca.ch>> wrote:
> 
>     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?
> 
> 
> Nothing, it's the same - it's a leftover after the rebase that will be 
> removed in 102.6 builds (originally reported as 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144637 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2144637>)
> 
> Tom

Basically, because the upstream maintainers of Firefox/Thunderbird are 
always using newer and newer rust/llvm/clang and other things to build 
the products .. and because in Enterprise Linux we are trying to support 
an older set of shared libraries for software development, this means 
shoehorning things like these two programs into running on the older 
shared libraries.  We need to build them one way and run them on 
something else.

The RHEL team does a wonderful job of making this happen and as the date 
from release gets further and further along this becomes harder and 
harder to do. They deserve a huge amount of credit for making this 
happen.  At least IMHO.