[PATCH 0/4] Pull polkit forward to mozjs24

[Shawn Walker-Salas]

On 08/22/16 12:12 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> On 08/22/2016 02:17 AM, Kalev Lember wrote:
>> On 08/18/2016 05:38 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>>> On 08/17/2016 03:57 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
>>>> It might be worth looking at kalev's work to see what differs.
>>>
>>> Are the patches visible anywhere? I don't see them in those threads.
>>
>> They are in https://github.com/kalev/polkit , but rather unfinished. I
>> think it built, but I can't recall how much (if any) runtime testing
>> they've gotten.
>>
> They look pretty similar, although I've got a few extra things I needed
> to solve a few problems. For example the strange C++ link mode force
> options, which seem to be required for automake on fedora (probably
> others) without which, the resulting binaries are missing the C++
> support libraries.

For the record, a project should always link anything that uses C++ 
using the C++ driver instead of the standard linker for that very reason.

The same would be required on Solaris for the same reasons as they are 
on Fedora.

-Shawn