The culprit was --enable-install-strip.

Ubuntu goes out of its way to disable that option, so it's not suprising that my builds failed when using Ubuntu patches.

Yea. I noticed that yesterday and wondered why it was there.

So devhelp builds now, right?

Yes, yes it does.

Jong, how have your experiences with mplayerplug-in been?

With version 3.55 I ran into this problem. At that link are comments that my XULRunner Slackbuild is at fault. This is plausible. After all, yours does a lot of 1337 things that I can't even understand .

However, I could build 3.55 just fine using Arch Linux patches. I could also build 3.50 using Gentoo patches.

Now I don't know what to believe.

Well to be honest, I first ran into this problem:
To solve it, I've uploaded a new XULRunner SlackBuild that puts /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9 in the $PATH.

Well. First it's xulrunner's fault. Then, it's the packagers fault. I did notice the {stable,unstable} idl directories when I was drafting my SlackBuild but I guess I got confused by reading the comments in libxul.pc... They were talking about includedir only.. That "=stable" got burned in my brain. So... It's a xulrunner bug. If they don't want to fix it, then I suppose it's up to you.

As far as xpidl not being found, it's mplayerplug-in's issue. He's still querrying libdir from 1.8 gecko.
Sorry, but there is no libdir in libxul.pc...

Here is a patch that should take care of all your issues (remove your $PATH addition to properly test). I quit running mplayer years ago because I felt development was too stagnant. So, I can't help you test. The patch does work however and, 10:1, gecko-mediaplayer should build fine. Same thing Arch does only the changes happen upstream instead of with mplayerplug-in...

http://jaguarlinux.com/pub/sandbox/x...kgconfig.patch

BTW, my xulrunner would have done the same thing. It's funny how after compiling 160 gnome packages, NONE of them have trouble finding xpidl or idl/stable, but as soon as you hit a small backwater package with an arrogant lazy developer, you get:

"Sorry, packaging error, needs to get fixed by the xulrunner packager.
Not the first time I've seen this either."

Well, then fix it you prick. Lot's of other devs have made concessions for the new API and format but I guess that's beneath him.

Jong, I bow to your knowledge and your google-fu!

I will try the patch out tonight.

Did you write it or find it? If you found it, could you please link to it?

I didn't check to see if the Arch patch dealt with the xpidl issue, and I just found a patch for it on the gecko-mediaplayer google group.

I wrote it but Fedora, and presumably others, do the same thing.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412971

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs...ch?view=markup

A bug should be filed with mplayerplug-in about his use of libdir tho. It should be:

MOZILLA_HOME="`$PKG_CONFIG --variable=sdkdir libxul`/bin"

Guess I can't argue about the idl directories tho...

Thanks for pointing out that I don't need to set the PATH to get mplayerplug-in to build. I've removed that part from my XULRunner SlackBuild.

Looks like 3.0.1 is out. I haven't read the changelog yet to see what has been changed or fixed, just FYI in case you want to update the builds.

http://www.mozilla.org/security/anno...sa2008-34.html

Still not seeing a thunderbird 2.0.0.16 yet... Or a .15 for that matter.

Hey Dugan, get a chance to try that patch with mplayerplug-in or gecko-mediaplayer or what ever it was?

CARP! So 3.0.1 is out and it has a very dangerous bug? I've made SlackBuilds for both 3.0 and 3.0.1 available, and edited the first post accordingly.

I just got to try it now. It worked as you promised, and allowed mplayerplug-in to compile without patches. I didn't incorporate it into my XULRunner SlackBuild, though, because I'd personally rather patch mplayerplug-in than XULRunner.

http://www.mozilla.org/security/anno...sa2008-34.html

No this bug is fixed _in_ 3.0.1.

Thanks. It was _late_ when I posted that. I've edited the first post again.

Btw. thanks for this nice slackbuild :-)

I've uploaded new SlackBuilds.

XULRunner has been upgraded to version 1.9.0.1.
Firefox is still at 3.0.1, but it's now easier to upgrade.

Also added a note about using the proper Flash version.