Re: new makefile for firefox

[Paul Drain <pd cipherfunk org>]

Confirmed.

Paul

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 21:57 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> -- 
> joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net
>