--- Em sáb, 12/1/13, DJ Lucas escreveu:

> De: DJ Lucas
> Assunto: Re: [blfs-dev] icedtea-web on seamonkey problem
> Para: "BLFS Development List"
> Data: Sábado, 12 de Janeiro de 2013, 3:30
> On 01/11/2013 11:39 PM, JZB2 wrote:
> > On Friday, January 11, 2013 04:38:10 PM Fernando de
> Oliveira wrote:
>>>> icedtea-2.3.3 (openjdk-1.7.0_09, built from
>>>> source, after binary, per
>>>> BLFS)
>>>> seamonkey-2.13.2
>>>> icedtea-web-1.3
>>> I my case,
>>> $ seamonkey --version
>>> Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.15
>>> 
>> Thanks for the feedback.  That's my next step, to
>> try a newer monkey...
>>   
>>> $ xulrunner -version
>>> Mozilla XULRunner 18.0 - 20130109221022
>> That's a good point.  I did not specifically
>> install xulrunner.  I simply
>> install seamonkey as described in BLFS.  The
>> instructions for installing
>> icedtea-web reference xulrunner as a prerequisite, but
>> if one installs firefox,
>> it seems that xulrunner is not needed per se.  I
>> made the logical inference
>> then that since seamonkey is a superset of firefox,
>> seamonkey alone should have
>> sufficed.  I was encoured in this belief by being
>> able to build icedtea-web by
>> merely adding the proper MOZILLA_CFLAGS and
>> MOZILLA_LIBS env. vars., and
>> installing seamonkey alone, no firefox and no
>> xulrunner.
>> 
>> I therefore assumed that no further dependence on
>> xulrunner is needed.  Do you
>> see any runtime depencencies that this assumption does
>> not cover?
>> 
> Yes. If you run ldd on the IcedTeaPlugin.so, the lack of
> "not found" 
> errors should make it fairly obvious. If you just build
> XULRunner by the 
> book, it very well might work without rebuilding the plugin
> (assuming 
> your modifications didn't break anything else), but I think
> I'd still 
> rebuild the plugin after XUL. If you really want to get
> around XUL, 
> adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH to whatever the Seamonkey equivalent
> is of the 
> run-mozilla.sh script might be sufficient (I honestly don't
> know), but 
> you should be aware that it is not tested...anywhere. Also,
> please don't 
> make that variable or the libs global either.
> Experimentation is fun, 
> but I think I'd stick to the book on this one (been there,
> done that) 
> unless you are just really cramped for space.

Hi, DJ,

I was not sure how to reply to John's questions, but recommending to 
follow books' instructions.

> Also, for future reference, in general it is best practice
> to consult 
> the support team of the distro unless you are absolutely
> sure about a 
> bug. It's not an ego thing, it's just that it can look bad
> on the distro 
> if too many invalid bugs are opened from its users (so I
> guess it is an 
> ego thing). :-) When I was actually active on
> distro-pkg-dev, I tackled 
> more than a few off list. Please do take the time to add a
> comment to 
> the icedtea bug stating that this was user error and can be
> closed 
> invalid (or, if you have permissions, just close it
> yourself). As 
> evidenced by the number of bugs (a majority of which will
> eventually be 
> tracked down to developers depending on undocumented
> "features" or 
> deprecated code in the closed plugin), those guys have
> enough on their 
> plate. :-)
> 
> -- DJ Lucas

Here, I only noticed the post was in dev, after your input, the question 
seems better for support, so John would have more chances of help there.

[]s,
Fernando
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