Stefan-Michael Guenther wrote: > Hi, > > I finally found the following page: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NSS_reference/Building_and_installing_NSS/Sample_manual_installation > > > which let me to a new configure statement: > > ./configure \ > --with-nss-inc=/usr/src/mozilla/dist/public/nss/ \ > --with-nss-lib=/usr/src/mozilla/dist/Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/lib/ > \ > --with-nspr-inc=/usr/src/mozilla/dist/Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/include/ > > --with-nspr-lib=/usr/src/mozilla/dist/Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/lib/ > > > No errors anymore. > > Thanks Rich for "kicking" me in the right direction ;-)) The only kicking I do is on the football pitch . . . > > Stefan > > Am 14.07.2010 18:44, schrieb Rich Megginson: >> Stefan-Michael Guenther wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>>> http://www.in-put.de/config.log (33KB) >>>> Thanks. Sorry, I meant config.log, not config.status. >>>> >>>> This is your configure command: >>>> >>>> $ ./configure --with-nss-inc=/usr/include/ --with-nss-lib=/usr/lib/nss >>>> --with-nspr-inc=/usr/local/include/nspr/ >>>> --with-nspr-lib=/usr/local/lib/ >>>> --with-nss=/usr/src/mozilla/security/nss/lib/nss.h >>>> >>>> >>>> This is incorrect for several reasons. >>> > >>> Thanks for your quick answer. >>> >>> I hope you don't mind when I say that it is obvious, that the command >>> contains at least one error - otherwise I wouldn't need help. >> In general, I think there is quite a bit of confusion between the system >> NSS (Name Switch Service - man nss - e.g. /etc/nsswitch.conf) used for >> naming services (hosts, passwd, etc.) and Mozilla NSS (Network Security >> Services) used for cryptographic services. In the interest of sanity, I >> will refer to Mozilla NSS as moznss. >> >> It's also incorrect because you specify both -with-nss-inc and >> --wth-nss-lib you must not also specify --with-nss. >> >> It's also incorrect because the values for --with-XXX= should be a _path >> name_ not a _file name_. >> >> --with-nss and --with-nspr take the _path name_ of a directory. This >> directory should contain a "lib" sub directory containing the shared >> libraries, and should contain an "include" directory containing the .h >> files. Since this may not always be the case that the lib and include >> sub-directories are in the same parent directory, separate >> --with-nss-inc and --with-nss-lib switches were added to give you more >> fine grained control. >>> >>> /usr/include/ contains nss.h - correct option? >> This is system NSS, not moznss. So, not correct option. >>> /usr/lib/nss/ contains libnssdbm3.so - correct option? >> This is system NSS, not moznss, so not correct option. >>> /usr/local/include/nspr contains nspr.h - correct option? >> It could be - did you build this one? >>> /usr/local/lib/ contains libnspr4.so - correct option? >> It could be - did you build this one? >>> /usr/src/mozilla/security/nss/lib contains nss.h - correct option? >> No, as I explained above. >>> >>> And, by the way, this is not my first attempt to compile software on a >>> linux system. My first attempt was somewhere in 1995. >> Ok. >>> >>> Stefan >>> >> >
