On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 08:30 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:40:29AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Package: xulrunner-dev-static
> > Version: 1.9~b4-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
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> > 
> > The library flags in libxul.pc and libxul-unstable.pc are:
> > 
> > - -L/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9/lib -lxpcomglue_s -lxul -lxpcom
> > 
> > libxul.so and libxpcom.so are installed in /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9 so
> > these flags will result in executables that cannot be loaded unless
> > that directory is added to the library search using the -rpath linker
> > option or LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> I think it's not the .pc file role to enforce the use or rpath or
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
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It's supposed to specify the linker flags you need to get a working
executable.  Now mozilla-dev and libxul-dev never did this either, but
it's about time this was fixed.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

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