Re: new makefile for firefox

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

The new hack works with gnomemeeting...

-Joseph

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On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:45 +1000, Paul Drain wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I'm building gnomemeeting with it now, so i'll confirm it in a while.
> 
> > 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).
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Obviously, i'd love to pester upstream distributions to fix things like
> this (and in Firefox's case, include an --enable-backend-only
> function :))
> 
> ...marking it down on my 'things to do during 2.13' list.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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