Re: evo and firefox revisited...

["Joseph E. Sacco, PhD" <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Carson,

That is an interesting approach.  Since "we" have the ability to patch
things at various stages of a build ,pre-fetch to post-install, the .pc
files could be "tweaked" as we choose.

>From your experiences, which packages might be good candidates for .pc
file modification?


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 21:10 -0400, Carson Gaspar wrote:
> 
> --On Sunday, July 24, 2005 12:19 PM -0400 "Joseph E. Sacco, PhD" 
> <joseph_sacco comcast net> wrote:
> 
> > If we are being careful to make sure that members of the evo family are
> > using firefox rather than mozilla, we will need to add the firefox
> > libraries to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> >
> > For example,
> >
> >         export
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/garnome/lib:/opt/garnome/lib/firefox=1.0.5
> 
> It would be better to fix your foo.pc / foo-config files to properly set 
> RPATH. Sadly, almost nothing does this by default (including the gnome 
> packages). I usually just modify the top-level GARNOME make file to set 
> LD_RUN_PATH to a sane set of directories before I build...
> 
> -- 
> Carson
> 
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