[openvrml-develop] 0.16.6 coming soon

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

Over the weekend I discovered that, once again, the Mozilla folks have
changed the flags required for building against their stuff without
updating the flags in their pkg-config metadata files.

To be fair, that's just one aspect of the problem. It turns out OpenVRML
also needs some code-level tweaks to work with the version of JavaScript
that is included with Firefox 2.0.

Briefly: JavaScript run in OpenVRML built against Firefox 2.0's libmozjs
is extremely likely (well, probably certain) to result in a crash.

For those interested in the details: libmozjs is built with
JS_THREADSAFE. I don't know how long that's been true; I would guess
it's new to the version of SpiderMonkey included with Firefox 2; but
that might not be the case. What is definitely the case is that this
version of SpiderMonkey--when compiled with JS_THREADSAFE--requires that
client code be compiled with JS_THREADSAFE as well. Furthermore, client
code that is compiled as such must also apply the functions
JS_SetContextThread and JS_ClearContextThread appropriately.

This was great fun to chase down starting from clue 0. :-/

But I seem to have this working locally; and I'll check in the fix soon.
And unfortunately, this warrants a 0.16.6 release.

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Braden McDaniel                           e-mail: <br...@en...>
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