On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:59:10 -0500, Michel Salim wrote: > > Op donderdag 09-11-2006 om 08:36 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Naoki: > > > In this specific case I'd be wondering why liferea needs a very specific > > > version of firefox. I just checked the app in question and it states a > > > requirement of : > > > firefox = 1.5.0.7 > > > > I'm not familiar with liferea, but I am a developer of a application > > which uses GtkEmbedMoz, an GTK firefox embedding widget and I think > > liferea is in the same situation as I am. > > > > The problem is that each version of Mozilla/Firefox uses a > > different installation prefix. For Firefox 1.5.0.7 this > > is /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7 > > > > When a application links with some Mozilla/Firefox library > > the full path gets saved in the final executable. > > > In case of liferea, the dependency is not actually that hard-coded. It is, it is. This has been the result of discussion in an upstream bug ticket. > liferea uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH to add Firefox's installation directory > before calling the actual liferea-bin binary. This path is detected at > build time and hardcoded into the script. It used to be like this, but has been error-prone (leading to crashes, even) and has changed to a really hardcoded path in the binary. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
