Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:03:49 +0200 From: Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gecko@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Firefox and GTK2 Message-ID: <tvc9-352i-wny@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <491275b9-47ef-58b4-ab0c-bdaf1bed13b4@FreeBSD.org> (Steve Wills's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:25:31 -0400") References: <7536c5cf-f8a0-fe5c-661f-b7909b9d57aa@FreeBSD.org> <y31m-acgi-wny@FreeBSD.org> <491275b9-47ef-58b4-ab0c-bdaf1bed13b4@FreeBSD.org>
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Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Hi, > > On 6/27/19 6:30 PM, Jan Beich wrote: >> (CC'ing public list. See http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#noprivate ) >> >> Steve Wills <swills@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> > [snip] >> >> No. Gtk2 is required for Adobe Flash (NPAPI) support[1]. --disable-npapi is >> unlikely[2] due to extra maintenance cost unless tested together[3] with >> other --disable-* options. >> >> Current www/firefox still supports www/flashplayer (confirmed myself) >> despite confusion[4]. According to upstream (linked in bug 1455897) it >> will stop around Firefox 73.0 if not postponed until after ESR76. >> >> [1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=gtk2 >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455897 >> [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377445 >> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371159 >> [4] https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/flashplayer-in-recent-www-firefox.65810/ >> > > Thanks for the info. Do you think we could switch to libcanberra-gtk3 > like the attached patch? www/firefox only directly loads libcanberra.so.0. What actually depends on -gtk3 slave? For one, x11-toolkits/gtk30 dropped it since 3.18.0. https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/rev/be9f154873f1/widget/gtk/nsSound.cpp#159 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/commit/7439a7efda25 $ strings /usr/local/lib/libcanberra.so | fgrep gtk3 $ strings /usr/local/lib/libcanberra-gtk.so | fgrep gtk3 > diff --git Mk/bsd.gecko.mk Mk/bsd.gecko.mk > index 28cd910ae90a..50df148513cc 100644 > --- Mk/bsd.gecko.mk > +++ Mk/bsd.gecko.mk > @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ LDFLAGS+= -B${LOCALBASE}/bin > .endif > > .if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MCANBERRA} > -RUN_DEPENDS+= libcanberra>0:audio/libcanberra > +RUN_DEPENDS+= libcanberra-gtk3>0:audio/libcanberra-gtk3 GTK3 is still optional in www/seamonkey and not supported in www/palemoon.
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