Re: Configure error in lang/spidermonkey17

[Filip Hajny <filip%joyent.com@localhost>]

> 2. 3. 2018 v 16:07, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 8:28 AM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>> Avoid spidermonkey *17* by all means!
>> It is so ancient it is unlikely to have working support for aarch64.
> 
> Given the cruftiness (and probably the number of unfixed security issues)
> of spidermonkey17: is there anything we can do to get rid of it? Can polkit
> run on anything newer?
> 
> I looked into this a while ago and it did not seem easily feasible, but
> perhaps there is hope? :)
> 

Based on the configure script, it should also work with 1.8.5. I have not tried though.

And there’s hope, upstream switched to version 24 on master:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=03dafd1fac8154c0a581395f1b7bf29e56a83491

-F