On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:02:41AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:28:26 (EDT), Darren Salt wrote: > > > I demand that Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton may or may not have written... > > > > [snip] > >> basically, an interpretation of the decision from the mozilla foundation is > >> that all languages but javascript can get lost. i do not understand why, > >> after years of support thanks to xpcom, _just_ when there's a project which > >> actually _uses_ alternative language bindings 100% and i meaaan 100%, the > >> mozilla foundation slams the door in its face and in the face of every > >> other project using xpcom. > > > > I'm wondering whether I should start investigating alternative Javascript > > libraries, given Mozilla's (apparent) reluctance to install libmozjs as > > anything other than a private library for use by xulrunner-using apps. > > > > That said, if anybody is prepared to take the Ubuntu workaround for this in > > their gxine package and make that suitable for upstream, I'll take that > > instead. I did try to push for something which is acceptable for upstream, > > but no, distribution-specific workaround... > > Ubuntu is currently using this wrapper to get gxine started: > ,---- > | #!/bin/sh > | # > | # wrapper for finding libmozjs.so. See https://launchpad.net/bugs/542506 > | # Copyright (C) 2010, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@ubuntu.com> > | # > | # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > | # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > | # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > | # (at your option) any later version. > | > | > | LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/xulrunner-`xulrunner-1.9.2 > --gre-version`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > | export LD_LIBRARY_PATH > | > | exec `which gxine.real` "$@" > `---- > > Would this be acceptable to you for inclusion into gxine upstream? I > suppose not, that's why I've didn't forward it (yet). If you are > interested in the full patch, see > http://patches.ubuntu.com/g/gxine/gxine_0.5.904-2ubuntu3.1.patch > > I *guess* something more appropriate would be to use an RPATH on the > gxine binary here, but I didn't look into this more closely.
And both these are useless in Debian. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100716121232.ga20...@glandium.org
