[Nix-dev] firefox elf-hack

[Mathijs Kwik]

Hrm,

That proves to be harder than I hoped.
I got it to build, but it won't start yet (but gives no errors/warnings).
So I will have to dig deeper.


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Eelco Dolstra
<eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 15/05/13 13:55, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
>> Our current expression for firefox [1] contains the "--disable-elf-hack"
>> configureFlag. By default this hack is enabled and is supposed to
>> improve performance [2]. After a bit of googling, I found that old
>> versions of firefox had issues with this hack, so probably this is the
>> reason it got disabled. However, these issues are fixed and I've been
>> running with firefox20 _with_ the elf hack for over a week now.
>>
>> Can we remove this configure flag and stick with the default (hacked)
>> behavior?
>
> Sure.  Maybe you can update to Firefox 21 while you're at it ;-)
>
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