Re: firefox-112

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:

> So, as far as I can tell, www/firefox on  pkgsrc-current has been
> essentially non functional on netbsd-9, netbsd-10 and current for
> about a month now - unless a user performs one of the various detailed
> workarounds.

I personally have just done cvs up -D in firefox and have 111.0.1 which
works.  But indeed, the situation is really not ok.

> Pending an actual fix, does anyone have any objections to me adding
> the following to $PREFIX/bin/firefox - it appears to avoid the issues
> for me on at least netbsd-10 (not tested other versions)
>
> # Workaround issue on NetBSD
> if [ -f /usr/X11R7/lib/libEGL.so ] && [ -z "$LD_PRELOAD" ]; then
>     export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/X11R7/lib/libEGL.so
> fi

No objections, although it might be good use use uname to limit to
NetBSD, just on general principles of limiting workarounds to the
intended platforms.

> Also - is there a PR open on this? If not could someone familiar with
> it open one, (it would be good to reference it in the comment in the
> above

Indeed.