[vlc-devel] [RFC][PATCH] fix mozplug toolbar

Jean-Paul Saman jpsaman at videolan.org
Wed Jun 18 17:42:16 CEST 2008


Bill C. Riemers wrote:
> Where do I find firefox-devel and what should it contain? 

yum install firefox-devel

> $ yum search firefox|grep '^firefox'
> firefox.x86_64 : Mozilla Firefox Web browser
> $ rpm -qa |egrep "firefox|nspr"
> nspr-4.7.1-0.9.1.fc9.x86_64
> nspr-devel-4.7.1-0.9.1.fc9.x86_64
> nspr-4.7.1-0.9.1.fc9.i386
> firefox-3.0-1.fc9.x86_64

hmm, firefox-devel still exists for firefox-2.0.0.4 on Fedora 8.

Are you running Fedora 9 ?? I couldn't find firefox-devel package on 
their download site either. So I would bug them for it ;)

> $ yumdownloader --source firefox > download.log 2>&1
> $ sudo rpmbuild --rebuild firefox-3.0-1.fc9.src.rpm > build.log 2>&1
> $ ls /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/*/firefox*
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/firefox-3.0-1.fc9.x86_64.rpm
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/firefox-debuginfo-3.0-1.fc9.x86_64.rpm
> 
> I have even tried downloading, building,  and installing the firefox
> source from mozilla just in case the rpm package is missing something,
> but still no joy.

Check in the RPM if it packages the devel files. I think it doesn't 
otherwise it would have created a firefox-devel package.

Gtz
Jean-Paul Saman.



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