[csw-users] /testing Firefox 3.0.13 is available

[Bart]

James Lee wrote:
> On 22/08/09, 10:33:46, William Bonnet <william at wbonnet.net> wrote regarding 
> Re: [csw-users] /testing Firefox 3.0.13 is available:
>
>   
>>> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/lwp firefox
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>       
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>     
>
>   
>> Does it makes everything working fine ? It would be a very good news :)
>>     
>
> It makes it run.  I've not tested much nor with Solaris 9 or 10 with this
> setting.
>
> The man page for libpthread(1) says:
>
>      For multithreaded programs that have been previously  linked
>      with the standard threads library, the environment variables
>      LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64 can be set as follows
>      to  bind  the  program  at  runtime to the alternate threads
>      library:
>
>      LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/lwp
>      LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=/usr/lib/lwp/64
>
>
> so maybe you can swap the path in the start script with no need
> to build with -L/usr/lib/lwp as well as -R/usr/lib/lwp.  There
> is more in the man page about the differences in use of system
> resources:
>
>      When using the alternate one-level  threads  implementation,
>      be  aware  that  it  may  create more LWPs than the standard
>      implementation using unbound threads.  LWPs consume  operat-
>      ing system memory in contrast to threads, which consume only
>      user-level memory.  Thus a multithreaded application  linked
>      against this library that creates thousands of threads would
>      create an equal number of LWPs and might run the system  out
>      of resources required to support the application.
>
> Perhaps the start script needs:
>
> if [ "`uname -r`" = "5.8" ] ; then
>     LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/lwp
>
>
> C thread experts please chip in.
>
>
>
>
> James.
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Is there any benefit to running the CSW firefox over the fat client from 
mozilla.org?  For example is it noticeably faster? Thx.