[gentoo-user] What does the "sqlite" USE flag do in Firefox?

Nikos Chantziaras · External Since: Aug 22, 2005 Posts: 274

Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does
for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's
sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the
default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).

Why?

Paul Hartman · External Since: Jun 26, 2009 Posts: 41

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc.TakeThisOut@arcor.de> wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does for
> xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's sqlite
> instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the default in
> the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).
>
> Why?

From looking at the Changelog it appears there have been issues in the
past when using external sqlite (there are some bug numbers
mentioned). It appears the sqlite USE flag was just added in the
3.5.3-r1 ebuild.

Etaoin Shrdlu · External Since: Dec 09, 2004 Posts: 164

On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does
> for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's
> sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the
> default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).
>
> Why?

This is from the Changelog:

20 Jun 2008; Raúl Porcel <armin76 DeleteThis @gentoo.org>
-mozilla-firefox-3.0.ebuild, +mozilla-firefox-3.0-r1.ebuild:
Don't use external sqlite, since it seems to give some problems, bug
#228305, and fix bindist icon, bug #228317

and, more recently,

25 Oct 2009; Jory A. Pratt <anarchy DeleteThis @gentoo.org>
+mozilla-firefox-3.5.3-r1.ebuild:
remove iceweasel support in favor of icecat, do not build sqlite system
support if disabled in xulrunner

30 Aug 2009; Jory A. Pratt <anarchy DeleteThis @gentoo.org>
-mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r1.ebuild, +mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r2.ebuild:
drop system sqlite support in 3.5.x until segv fixed.

Nikos Chantziaras · External Since: Aug 22, 2005 Posts: 274

On 10/26/2009 06:30 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Monday 26 October 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> Can someone enlighten me as to what exactly the "sqlite" USE flag does
>> for xulrunner and firefox? AFAIK, it seems to make use of the system's
>> sqlite instead of bundled sqlite. Which seems saner. But recently, the
>> default in the ebuild seems to be -sqlite (preferring the bundled lib).
>>
>> Why?
>
> This is from the Changelog:
>[...]

Damn, and I'm usually the first to point out to people that they should
read the ChangeLogs Razz

Sorry for the noise.