As Jorry Pratt said in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100597#c28 I am opening a new bug for this, because you are the maintener of gecko-sdk. Although I do not see, why should an application build against gecko-sdk (exception to this is only the case with the binary mozilla-builds and the binary-sdk), as the compilation time for gecko-sdk is the same as for mozilla or mozilla-firefox and they provide all the libraries needed for all the other applications, opposed to gecko-sdk. There were some issues with the first patch, which I uploaded in bug #100597, but I didn't update it there, because of what I mentioned earlier (and I totally forgot about them). So here I'll upload an updated patch and ebuild which resolves the issue, which Kevin DeKorte mentioned in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100809#c36 (the problem was that in the first patch I used a single rpath-tag, which left xpcom unresolved or resolved to some other libraries). Moreover I used the patch from bug #98828 (I named it cairo-fix.patch) in the ebuild, in order to compile it and test it, because I have cairo-1.0.0 and didn't want to downgrade all the gnome stuff, it applies clean and mplayerplug-in works correctly, but I don't know if cairo-libraries are in some way used. The only other application in portage, which uses gecko-sdk, or the only one I could find out is vlc. I could not build it because of bug #99813 (so I could not try to make this builds against firefox or mozilla at this moment).
Created attachment 67272 [details] gecko-sdk-1.7.8.ebuild This is the ebuild for gecko-sdk-1.7.8, it uses the rpath.patch, which I'll upload and cairo-fix.patch from bug #98828 (if >=cairo-0.9.0).
Created attachment 67274 [details, diff] rpath.patch This is the rpath.patch for the gecko-sdk
Gecko-sdk is actually just the mozilla ebuild with a different install procedure. Once a version of mozilla with the rpath fix in it goes stable, I'll just take that and update gecko-sdk. Is that acceptable?
Yes, of course :) Only this is a little bit different grep -Flr "#RPATH_FIXER" --include=*.mk . | xargs sed -i -e \ 's|#RPATH_FIXER|'"/usr/$(get_libdir)/${PN}/lib:/usr/$(get_libdir)/${PN}/bin"'|' Simply, because as you said the installation procedure is a little bit different, therefore the both paths (lib and bin) should be added.
cairo is fixed in gecko-sdk-1.7.12 thanks to az. As soon as a version with the rpath fix is stabled, we'll introduce it to gecko-sdk.
gecko-sdk will be removed from the tree along w/ mozilla. WONTFIX.
