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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libxul.so in gentoo
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:53:41
Message-Id: 508498D2.6010400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] libxul.so in gentoo by Jauhien Piatlicki
1 Jauhien Piatlicki schrieb:
2 > Both firefox and thunderbird have xul library. Before there was a
3 > separate package xulrunner in the tree, but as Mozilla does not
4 > provide it as a separate package now (as far as I remember) both
5 > firefox and thunderbird use there own libxul.so.
6
7 That is not correct. Mozilla does provide xulrunner, released in sync
8 with firefox versions:
9 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/
10
11 It was decided some time ago to remove xulrunner from Gentoo (bug 403415).
12
13 > It seems this is the same library (Or am I wrong?). So may be it
14 > could be splitted into a separate package? (The reason is its
15 > compilation takes a lot of time on week machines and compiling it
16 > one time would be better than twice). Also as far as I can see
17 > xulrunner is splitted into a separate package in Debian and at
18 > least Iceweasel uses it.
19
20 Building firefox, thunderbird or seamonkey against xulrunner is
21 possible, but not a supported configuration by Mozilla.
22
23
24 Best regards,
25 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] libxul.so in gentoo Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>