Is #1 something we can backport to b2g-2.0?

- Kyle

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Nathan Froyd <froy...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Two changes to how NSS is built for Firefox's purposes have landed recently:
>
> 1. Bug 1018375 changed our build process on Android/B2G such that the 
> libnss3.so that we build there now has proper symbol exports applied to it.  
> This change enables the linker to discard any functions and/or data that 
> aren't used by the exported API from the final libnss3.so.  Initial size 
> reduction results were very encouraging; about ~10% reduction in the on-disk 
> size, ~18% reduction of the uncompressed in-memory size.
>
> 2. Bug 1025998 changed our NSS build such that we now maintain a custom list 
> of the symbols required to build Firefox and its subset of NSS.  This list is 
> only used for some platforms; for all others, the normal NSS-provided list of 
> exported symbols is used.  If you are using new symbols from NSS, either from 
> C++ or through ctypes, you need to ensure that the symbols you wish to use 
> are present in security/build/nss.def.  (They also need to be present in 
> NSS's list, of course, or you'll break the build.)
>
> The intent of the second change is to eventually cut down on the size of the 
> NSS API surface that we ship in Firefox, thus reducing the size of the NSS 
> libraries that we ship as well.  The tracking bug for this effort is bug 
> 611781.
>
> -Nathan
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