I prefer to use mozilla-firefox-bin as my browser because it uses the actual firefox artwork, but Yelp requires a source version of either mozilla or firefox to handle its rendering. To keep my firefox-bin possibly confilicting with a source firefox, I keep a big and bloaty source mozilla installed so that yelp (and I believe another program) can use it to compile (and/or run?) with. My question is this: is it possible for yelp to use gecko-sdk to handle rendering, since I already have it for mplayerplug-in, or is this a question better asked upstream?
I was about to file a similar bug just now, wondering why yelp depends on a source version of Firefox if I have mozilla-firefox-bin installed. Perhaps this could be improved upon.
Firefox-bin does not provide the needed libraries and headers. The source version does, however, it is generally a bad idea to link against Firefox as it does not guarantee API/ABI compatibility with the actual GECKO engine. That being said, using gecko-sdk would be a good idea. I will test and try to get this done soon.
I put a build into our overlay for 2.14 ( that builds against gecko-sdk ) and submitted the patch upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331495
Could you please revert this one in gnome-eperimental, as this will not work if you don't have mozilla. The problem is that gecko-sdk is not exported to the ldpath and linking against it does not set the rpath as is the case with mozilla and firefox, which will result in problems after that and why someone would want to link against gecko-sdk? as upstream said the correct way is to use xulrunner if and when it is stable - as this should resolve the problems with finding the correct gtkmozembed, hopefully. you could read more here http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2005-12-23/whats-coming-for-gtkmozembed/ and there is the question if yelp and all the others support xulrunner
The e-build also has trouble with having seamonkey-1.0 built instead of mozilla. I've tried editing the ebuild so it uses seamonkey as the dependencie, but it fails with this error: checking YELP_CFLAGS... -DORBIT2=1 -pthread -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnomecanvas-2.0 -I/usr/include/libart-2.0 -I/usr/include/libbonoboui-2.0 -I/usr/include/gnome-keyring-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 checking YELP_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -lglade-2.0 -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lbonoboui-2 -lgnome-keyring -lgnomecanvas-2 -lgnome-2 -lpopt -lart_lgpl_2 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-2 -lgconf-2 -lgobject-2.0 -lbonobo-activation -lORBit-2 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lexslt -lxslt -lgcrypt -lgpg-error -lxml2 -lz -lm checking for gsed... /bin/sed checking which gecko to use... mozilla checking for mozilla-gtkmozembed... Package mozilla-gtkmozembed was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `mozilla-gtkmozembed.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'mozilla-gtkmozembed' found configure: error: Library requirements (mozilla-gtkmozembed) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /home/tmp/portage/yelp-2.12.2/work/yelp-2.12.2/config.log !!! ERROR: gnome-extra/yelp-2.12.2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1933: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called src_compile ebuild.sh, line 1648: Called gnome2_src_compile gnome2.eclass, line 47: Called gnome2_src_configure gnome2.eclass, line 41: Called econf 'compile' '--enable-man' '--enable-info' '--with-mozilla=mozilla' emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre5-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=k8 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=k8 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/ ftp://gentoo.mirrored.ca/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/home/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa amd64 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr crypt cups dbus divx4linux doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard input_devices_evdev input_devices_joystick kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
@Gergan: a new version has been put in the overlay that reverts the recent change w/gecko-sdk. @ShadowHawk: we will be testing integration w/seamonkey soon.
xulrunner support is at least a month out, unless gnome herd wants to take xulrunner under there wing mozilla herd will not be doing anything of major use with it until sometime next month if not later.
This is gonna be a while still, xulrunner is under heavy development right now and is not ready for production. I would close this as later.
For the curious xulrunner is in the tree. It is p.masked as I have yet to figure out how to handle the java dep for each independant arch such as ppc/ia64 and so on. Yelp does build against xulrunner but seamonkey will have be to drop'd in before xulrunner. Mozilla will be removed from tree within next few weeks in favor of seamonkey as mozilla will not be providing any further updates for the 1.7.x branch.
good to news :) So the rigth state for this bug is LATER rigth ?
later is right ... just so everyone knows those xulrunner is no small app ... it is gonna take same amount of time and space as mozilla and firefox do.
from my understanding, if mozilla and consorts where using xulrunner it would cut compilation times for each program using xul.
we'll do this when xulrunner is ready.
Reopen to dupe.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155231 ***
