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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:25:08 +0800
From:      "Sherry Zhang" <yuleopen@gmail.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GTKMozEmbed with linux-firefox
Message-ID:  <68bfdc900610291825g76ad8114g431ad09dfc47bee5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061030131215.76cfdf11@localhost>
References:  <20061030131215.76cfdf11@localhost>

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Norberto:

I am a newbie and maybe I do not know how to answer your question. but I
just follow the FreeBSD handbook chapter 6 [6.2.3 Firefox Mozilla, and Java
plugin] and have the flash plugin installed. it works fine. maybe you can
have a try?

Sherry Zhang
with best regards



On 10/30/06, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I use www/linux-firefox as my standard browser, as www/firefox doesn't
> support
> flash.
>
> /etc/make.conf has
> WITH_MOZILLA=firefox
> WITH_GECKO=firefox
>
>
> I am trying to install devel/devhelp, and I bumped into these issues:
>
> 1) it requires  ${LOCALBASE}/lib/${MOZILLA}/components/libwidget_gtk2.so
> (and
> if not present, it tries to install www/${MOZILLA} ) . linux-firefox
> doesn't
> include libwidget_gtk2.so , but nvu (which I have installed) does.
>
> I solved this issue by symlinking nvu's libwidget_gtk2.so to the expected
> firefox location.
>
> so.. 2) when building devhelp, it sees libwidget_gtk2.so and it moves
> ahead...
> until
> [...]
> checking LIBDEVHELP_LIBS... -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib -pthread
> -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnomevfs-2 -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2
> -lgthread-2.0 -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lXrandr -lXi
> -lXinerama -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lXcursor -lXfixes
> -lcairo -lpangoft2-1.0 -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lz -lpango-1.0 -lm
> -lXrender
> -lX11 -lXext -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -liconv checking which
> mozilla to use... firefox checking for firefox-gtkmozembed >= 0.10
> firefox-xpcom >= 0.10... Package firefox-gtkmozembed was not found in the
> pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `firefox-gtkmozembed.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No
> package
> 'firefox-gtkmozembed' found Package firefox-xpcom was not found in the
> pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing
> `firefox-xpcom.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package
> 'firefox-xpcom' found configure: error: Library requirements
> (firefox-gtkmozembed >= 0.10 firefox-xpcom >= 0.10) not met; consider
> adjusting
> the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a
> nonstandard
> prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> [...]
>
> Again, gtkmozembed is available from nvu, but not the .pc (no biggie I
> suppose)...
>
> anyway, the question is : is hter a way I can have the missing components
> (so
> far, libwidget_gtk2 , gtkmozembed, mozembed, xpcom ) *without* having to
> install the native firefox ?
>
> Would this be possible to do with a new port? (i.e., www/firefox with a
> special
> config to only build these objects... would it be useful ?
>
> thanks,
>
> _________________________
> {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
>
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> very
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>
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