On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:01:07PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 05:39:08PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > >> So, there's a CR open that says that the sqlite3.pc file we deliver has > >> only "3.5" in it, rather than "3.5.4" and that this breaks Firefox 3.0's > >> build. > >> > >> Sure enough, Firefox's configure script wants the major, minor and micro > >> version numbers of SQLite3 in sqlite3.pc, but SQLite3 has *always* > >> shipped sqlite3.pc with just the major and minor numbers. > >> > >> I've confirmed the former by downloading Firefox source and looking at > >> ./configure, and the latter by checking how SQLite3 builds sqlite3.pc > >> and by asking on the sqlite-users at sqlite.org mailing list. > >> > >> What to do? > > > > No comments?! > > I just happen to have a Fedora 9 box handy, and it's sqlite3.pc also says > 3.5, so since the upstream source and Fedora agree, I'd mark it as not a > bug, and let the Firefox people fix their sources.
I've received this advice from others too. That's what I'll do. Thanks! I don't want to fork SQLite3 for a bug in Firefox. One could argue that the bug is in SQLite3, but then that must be filed with the upstream community first.
