Jauhien Piatlicki schrieb:
> Both firefox and thunderbird have xul library. Before there was a 
> separate package xulrunner in the tree, but as Mozilla does not
> provide it as a separate package now (as far as I remember) both
> firefox and thunderbird use there own libxul.so.

That is not correct. Mozilla does provide xulrunner, released in sync
with firefox versions:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/

It was decided some time ago to remove xulrunner from Gentoo (bug 403415).

> It seems this is the same library (Or am I wrong?). So may be it
> could be splitted into a separate package? (The reason is its
> compilation takes a lot of time on week machines and compiling it
> one time would be better than twice). Also as far as I can see
> xulrunner is splitted into a separate package in Debian and at
> least Iceweasel uses it.

Building firefox, thunderbird or seamonkey against xulrunner is
possible, but not a supported configuration by Mozilla.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn


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