Build Failure on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed after distro upgrade: `NSSUTIL_3.59' not found

[Michael Stahl]

On 17.06.21 12:54, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 17/06/2021 11:41, Michael Stahl wrote:
>> ... perhaps like this: first JVM loads /usr/lib64/libnss3.so via 
>> nssLibraryDirectory, then some LO library is loaded that is linked to 
>> libnss3util.so and finds program/libnssutil3.so via RPATH, then JVM 
>> loads libnss3util.so but since a shared object with that name is 
>> already loaded it's a no-op.
> 
> ...or, more likely, first some LO library caused the LO 
> program/libnss3util.so to be loaded, and then the JVM loaded 
> /usr/lib64/libnss3.so, which likely has a DT_NEEDED of libnss3util.so 
> (at least my nss-3.65.0-1.fc34.x86_64 does) and, as you already 
> concluded, happily picks up the wrong, already loaded 
> program/libnss3util.so

oh yes indeed i mixed up what depends on what...

>> maybe we should think about defaulting to --with-system-nss on Linux, particularly for release builds; there hasn't been a reason to bundle it in 5 years or so. 

here is a patch to do that:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/120388