Re: new makefile for firefox

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

As I said... I was having a bad day... [:-)].

It's a much better hack than it's predecessor. I will still take a look
at the rpath approach.

-Joseph

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On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 22:31 +0200, guenther wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 14:14 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> > Attached is a new Makefile for firefox that includes a post-install
> > target that will link the nss/nspr libs to $(libdir).
> > 
> > evolution-webcal can now be built using the old Makefile.
> 
> Can confirm this. :-)  Probably fixes the gnomemeeting issue as well.
> 
> 
> The Firefox post-install works, so we don't need the gross [1] hack
> introduced in GARNOME 2.12.0.2 for evolution-webcal any longer. Attached
> is a patch to revert this hack (applies to GARNOME 2.12.0.2 only, any
> earlier version is fine without this patch).
> 
> However, your new Makefile has a typo [2] -- libssl3 should rather be
> libssl3.so. Easy to adjust for anyone given your last post. Anyway,
> attached is a patch for Firefox against GARNOME 2.12.0.2 (should apply
> to earlier version as well, regardless of the Firefox version bump to
> 1.0.7 in 2.12.0.2).
> 
> 
> Still a hack, though -- granted, I love hacks. ;)  I'd like to get rid
> of most of the additional (and necessary) post-install hacks altogether.
> Which would require upstream fixes. As it is now, we're forced to hack
> our way...
> 
> ...guenther
> 
> 
> [1] It's gross, cause altering LD_LIBRARY_PATH and sticking to the
> default build target didn't work for some strange reason...
> 
> [2] Obviously, this isn't your day. ;)
> 
> 
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