On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:54:54AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: >> >> >> but that's not the problem: the problem is generically to *all* -dev >> >> libraries. hmm... let me raise this somewhere on a debian list, but >> >> essentially what i need to do is to create a package >> >> python-hulahop-that-compiles-and-links-to-xulrunner-9 >> > >> > And that would have absolutely no usefulness in debian >> >> beh? :) >> >> >> why? >> >> >> >> because of "pkg-config --variable=sdkdir libxul". >> >> >> >> that line says it all: where does the libxul .pc file come from? >> >> from the -dev package. what that *should* be is this: >> >> >> >> pkg-config --exact-version 9.0 --variable=sdkdir libxul >> > >> > like pkg-config --variable=sdkdir libxul = 9.0 ? >> > tough that would break with 9.0.1. >> >> sorry i meant --exact-version=9.0.1 >> >> >> but... but... that doesn't work either, does it, because _if_ >> >> xulrunner-dev is installed and it's xulrunner-10.0-dev, then we're >> >> f****d, because that file libxul.pc is exclusively-named. >> >> >> >> >> >> > The good news for you is that >> >> > xulrunner 10 will stay there for a while and /might/ be what is released >> >> > in wheezy. >> >> >> >> argh - actually that's _bad_ news, for exactly the reasons above. >> >> not only can it not be compiled (against xulrunner-9) but also it's >> >> xulrunner-10 which is severely borked. >> >> >> >> hmm... i wonder if xulrunner 11 is similarly borked? >> > >> > pyxpcom doesn't build with xulrunner 11. >> >> it doesn't? argh! the fun continues :) > > Note that it doesn't build out of the box with xulrunner 10. I had to > fix it in debian, and the fixes are probably not enough.
yeah i saw that. because pyxpcom is maintained "externally", that big batch of changes in 10.0.1 from PRBool to bool is just one example that's causing problems: i had to similarly patch hulahop to substitute PRBool for bool. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
