Where in the world do I submit this patch, so that mozilla doesn’t have (bad) hardcoded rpaths the libraries, when linked on x86_64 Linux distros that use /usr/lib64 for 64-bit libraries?

Update: This was redhat bug 139199, fixed on rawhide and in freetype’s trunk sources.

--- /usr/bin/freetype-config~   2005-03-04 13:47:22.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/bin/freetype-config    2006-07-22 16:13:39.000000000 -0400
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@
 prefix=/usr
 exec_prefix=/usr
 exec_prefix_set=no
 includedir=/usr/include
-libdir=/usr/lib64
+default_libdir=/usr/lib64
+libdir=$default_libdir
 enable_shared=yes
 wl=-Wl,
 hardcode_libdir_flag_spec='${wl}--rpath ${wl}$libdir'

@@ -118,9 +119,9 @@
   if test "$enable_shared" = "yes" ; then
     eval "rpath=\"$hardcode_libdir_flag_spec\""
   fi
   libs="-lfreetype -lz"
-  if test "$libdir" != "/usr/lib" ; then
+  if test "$libdir" != "$default_libdir" ; then
     echo -L$libdir $rpath $libs
   else
     echo $libs
   fi

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