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+
+# HG changeset patch
+# User J. Brown <jb999@gmx.de>
+# Date 1476951900 14400
+# Node ID cca249d09ef600650e6127c18be438a37e9d4587
+# Parent  d8bbf1a3957fd25ff24bfee51331c150b154cc39
+Bug 1242901 - Fix linking libxul.so with binutils/GNU ld >= 2.26. r=glandium
+
+The build fails with:
+
+    /usr/bin/ld: ../../xpcom/components/nsComponentManager.o: relocation R_386_GOTOFF against protected data `start_kPStaticModules_NSModule' can not be used when making a shared object
+    /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
+    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
+
+This is a patch from 2016/04/27 16:36:50 ryoon found on
+http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/www/firefox45/patches/#dirlist.
+
+diff --git a/xpcom/components/Module.h b/xpcom/components/Module.h
+--- a/xpcom/components/Module.h
++++ b/xpcom/components/Module.h
+@@ -133,17 +133,17 @@ struct Module
+ #if defined(MOZILLA_INTERNAL_API)
+ #  define NSMODULE_NAME(_name) _name##_NSModule
+ #  if defined(_MSC_VER)
+ #    pragma section(".kPStaticModules$M", read)
+ #    pragma comment(linker, "/merge:.kPStaticModules=.rdata")
+ #    define NSMODULE_SECTION __declspec(allocate(".kPStaticModules$M"), dllexport)
+ #  elif defined(__GNUC__)
+ #    if defined(__ELF__)
+-#      define NSMODULE_SECTION __attribute__((section(".kPStaticModules"), visibility("protected")))
++#      define NSMODULE_SECTION __attribute__((section(".kPStaticModules"), visibility("default")))
+ #    elif defined(__MACH__)
+ #      define NSMODULE_SECTION __attribute__((section("__DATA, .kPStaticModules"), visibility("default")))
+ #    elif defined (_WIN32)
+ #      define NSMODULE_SECTION __attribute__((section(".kPStaticModules"), dllexport))
+ #    endif
+ #  endif
+ #  if !defined(NSMODULE_SECTION)
+ #    error Do not know how to define sections.
+