Re: Firefox24 build breaking because of non-existent strcasestr function

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:17:02AM -0700, Ibraheem Saleh wrote:
> My Firefox24 build is breaking on Solaris 10 Sparc with gcc4.9.2 due
> to the use of the strcasestr extension which doesn't exist on Solaris
> 10. Does anybody know a quick & valid fix for this?
> 
> It happens when compiling this file:
> mozilla-esr24/widget/xpwidgets/GfxInfoX11.cpp
> 
> Here's the code block in question:
>  whereToReadVersionNumbers = Mesa_in_version_string + strlen("Mesa");
>         if (strcasestr(mVendor.get(), "nouveau"))
>             mIsNouveau = true;
>         if (strcasestr(mRenderer.get(), "intel")) // yes, intel is in
> the renderer string
>             mIsIntel = true;
>         if (strcasestr(mRenderer.get(), "llvmpipe"))
>             mIsLlvmpipe = true;
>         if (strcasestr(mRenderer.get(), "software rasterizer"))
>             mIsOldSwrast = true;
>     } else if (strstr(mVendor.get(), "NVIDIA Corporation")) {
> 
> I appreciate the help :)

gnulib tries to provide (GPL'd) replacements e.g.

  https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/strcasecmp.html

which go well with AC_REPLACE_FUNCS.

Cheers,

Patrick