This comes from an epiphany's developper rant: Gentoo should follow all other distros in the layout of /usr/include/mozilla; instead of just moving the dist/include directory there, it should use "make install". This causes epiphany ebuild and possibly other apps copiling against firefox/mozilla to patch the include dirs in the Makefiles which is very annoying, both for ebuild maintainability, and for developping on my own pc, since i can't compile CVS epiphany against gentoo's setup. einfo "Installing includes and idl files..." dodir ${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/include/idl /usr/include cd ${S}/dist cp -LfR include/* ${D}${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/include cp -LfR idl/* ${D}${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/include/idl These are the offending lines that should be replaced by make install, but i don't really know how. see also a comment on that issue some lines above which are stating that the whole thing is a hack. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Yet another problem related to gentoo's wacky mozilla include directories, the piphany configure script fails to detect a file because it's not in the mozilla's default include dir. configure:23401: checking for toolkit's nsITypeAheadFind configure:23422: g++ -c -g -O2 -fno-rtti -fshort-wchar -I/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/include -I/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/include/pipnss -I/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/include/xpcom -I/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/include/string -I/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/include/nspr conftest.cc >&5 In file included from conftest.cc:31: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/include/fastfind/nsITypeAheadFind.h:14:22: domstubs.h: No such file or directory As you see it checks for domstubs.h file, which is not included since in gentoo it is placed under /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/include/dom/domstubs.h (there is no -I/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/include/dom cause that path is broken, only used by gentoo)
Whats the deal with this, can somebody from the mozilla herd comment?. It is a pain to keep patching various apps that use these headers.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85437 ***
