On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:34:21PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> it was just noticed that the FTBFS on s390 I reported sounded like an
> FTBFS previously dealt with in libmozjs, meaning you're embedding it
> instead of just using libmozjs-dev and dropping your embedded code copy.
> Given the security records on xulrunner thingies, I'm opening this at
> serious severity with security tag…

Upstream is aware of this problem and is waiting for SpiderMonkey
developer to provide a public API for the parser before removing the
need for the embedded copy of SpiderMonkey.

See the following blog comment by jscoverage author:
http://blog.mozilla.com/dherman/2010/04/22/language-engineering-on-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-3

There seems to be outgoing work for this in SpiderMonkey:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533874

I posted to mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine (as advised by irc.mozilla.org
#jsapi folks), to ask for the current status of this work.
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