[Nix-dev] Re: firefox-3.0.1-with-plugins fails to build

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mornin'!

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> I'm 90% sure the attached patch fixes the problem (it just mimics what's
>> done for GNU IceCat).  Can you confirm this?
>
> This patch should work but it does double the size of the Firefox installation
> (because it includes a separate xulrunner build).  As far as I can tell, the
> only reason mplayerplug-in and friends fail to build is because Firefox 3
> forgets to install some XUL/XPCOM-related stuff (which it does build).  Firefox
> 2 did install them.  Maybe we can manually install the missing files in the
> postInstall hook.

Hmm, are you sure it builds everything that's needed?

Surely, a large part of the build is duplicated between both, but I was
under the impression that only one "application" (i.e., `browser' or
`xulrunner') could be built at a time (with `--enable-application' at
configure-time).

Thanks,
Ludo'.