Re: [moz-bonobo-list] [announcement] mozilla-bonobo 0.3.0 & GNOME CVS news

[Christian Glodt]

> > 
> > sorry, but for me this doesn't install anything:
> > 
> > $ make install
> > make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> > 
> You are right... you have to do make and then copy the plugin to the
> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins or suitable directory.

If only that directory was the same on every
distribution... Well, I think for now the current
solution is acceptable, because packagers will
do the right thing, and informed users can
still compile for themselves, provided they know
where to put the plugin.

> > > And I think its not using any mozilla-dev package (cause I dont think I
> > > have any such thing installed)
> > 
> > That's because they actually copied the necessary
> > headers into their own source (probably from the
> > old NS4 Plugin SDK). I don't think that's the right
> > approach.
> > 
> Yeah I thought it would be something like this.... donno why I posted
> this :) But how would I know if those headerfiles are there on my
> machines or not?

see if you have any directory named mozilla*
in /usr/include. You can also try a
"locate npapi.h" if you have "locate".
Also try pkg-config ("pkg-config --cflags mozilla-plugin mozilla-nspr").
The desperate way to search for the file
would be "find / -name npapi.h".

The right thing to do would be to ask your
package management system if a file named
"npapi.h" is installed. But I have no idea how
that is done on gentoo.

HTH,

Christian Glodt