Re: gnomemeeting-1.2.2: surprise dependencies

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

The totem configure process explicitly looks for firefox/mozilla because
of the totem mozilla plugin.  gnomemeeting does not. 

The problem with building gnomemeeting is the implicit dependence on
gecko nspr/nss libs arising from an explicit dependence on
libedataserver-1.2.so. gnomemeeting has no explicit dependence on any
component of firefox so configure does not look for it.

On systems that install mozilla rather than firefox, the nss/nspr libs
are usually installed under 

   /usr/lib

which is always in the library search path. The other mozilla libs are
usually installed under 

   /usr/lib/mozilla-1.x.y.

The firefox build, as currently configured, places *all* libs under
$(libdir)/firefox-1.x.y.

I see two choices:
(1) add a post-install target to the FF GAR Makefile to link the
nss/nspr libs to $(libdir)

(2) modify the firefox build so it installs its nss/nspr libs in
$(libdir)

-Joseph

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On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 09:36 -0700, Bob Kashani wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 11:56 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> > Having a bad day already ...
> > (1) the correct Makefile is attached to this email
> > 
> > (2) Pondering over the e-d-s / firefox LD_LIBRARY_PATH problem I think
> > that changing libedataserver-1.2.pc is a bad idea [guenther concurs :-)]
> > 
> > What might be better is a post-install target in firefox that links a
> > select list of libs from $(libdir)/firefox-1.x.y to $(libdir)
> 
> What would be even better is if the configure script for gnomemeeting is
> fix to correctly find the firefox lib dir. :) Look at the way that totem
> does it.
> 
> Bob
> 
> -- 
> Bob Kashani
> http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome
> 
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