Re: firefox 51.1 instability with libvpx 1.6.2

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

Ooopppsss !!! Typo!

All occurrences of libvpx 1.6.2 should say 1.6.1, while references to 
1.6.1 should be 1.6.0


On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Paul Goyette wrote:

> With pkgsrc updated to just a few hours ago, and all packages rebuilt from 
> source and from scratch, I am seeing some serious instability in firefox-51.1 
> with libvpx-1.6.2 and ffmpeg3-3.2.2nb1 (which was "version bumped" for 
> libvpx).
>
> In particular, if I visit finance.yahoo.com and just wait, firefox will 
> generally core-dump within 15-20 seconds (sometimes even faster).
>
> Reverting libvpx to -1.6.1 and ffmpeg3 to -3.2.2, firefox-50.0.1 things are 
> reasonably stable.  Firefox still dumps core occassionally, but not quickly 
> and not continuously.  (I have not tested whether firefox 51.0 will even 
> build with the older versions of libvpx and ffmpeg3, let alone tried to run 
> that way.)
>
> All of this is on a NetBSD 7.99.53 amd64 system.
>
>
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