On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:25:52PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:06:02 -0500, Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >I was trying to modify the VLC port to enable the Firefox plugin, but > >when I added firefox3 to the list of USE_GECKO and tried to build the > >port, it complained saying it couldn't find firefox3-config. I checked > >my system, and there is no firefox3-config, but back when I had firefox2 > >installed, there was a firefox-config on my system. I couldn't find > >where in bsd.gecko.mk to add firefox3-config to the plist or where in > >firefox3's Makefile it would need to be added. Any advice on the matter > >would be helpful. > > Because Firefox 3 does not install this file and *.pc (pkg-config files) > anymore. Everytime when I have tried to search for answer and reason why > they changed it. I end up hit the wall. Perhaps, they asked in the wrong > place. Also it's hard to find a good keyword to search in google (Mozilla > is using google search for their website/newsgroups). If you can find it, > I would love to know about it. Everything what jong357 (forum user) knows > are same what I know in our search, but he has pointed that there is > answer in mailing list that I can't find. > > http://forums-test.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=3559635 > > I have told my team about that somehow I think that Mozilla developers > want us to start to use xulrunner for SDK/build stuff rather than on > Firefox, Seamonkey and etc. I think that xulrunner 1.9 does install *.pc > files and probably xulrunner-config too. > > -- > > While I am here, our firefox3 port still need some improvements such as > don't use lib/browser_plugins anymore, because firefox3 can't use firefox2 > plugins or it crashes. I am thinking about maybe use > www/linux-mplayer-plugin/Makefile.npapi. Then create new directories like > lib/npapi/symlinks/gecko18 and lib/npapi/symlinks/lib/gecko19. Other more > improvements like clean up in bsd.gecko.mk and gecko ports. > > I am slowing and lacking motivative, because I dislike any Mozilla > products and my box is slow for build/install test. I am being patient to > work with these, so I would love someone (that actually like Mozilla > product and have motivative) to jump in and take over. ;-) > > Cheers, > Mezz > > >Thanks, > >Naram Qashat > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FreeBSD GNOME Team > http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes Mozilla uses xulrunner-config now and it does some odd stuff compared to what firefox2 used for plugins and such since everything goes in xulrunner now for plugins instead of the old directory
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