Bug 40026

Summary:	Build against npapi-sdk instead of xulrunner
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	Dominique Leuenberger <dominique-freedesktop.org>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	rdieter
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Switch to npapi D'Oh!. Of course configure.ac needs to be patched.

Description Dominique Leuenberger 2011-08-11 12:17:09 UTC

Created attachment 50140 [details] [review]
Switch to npapi

With the new development model of firefox/xulrunner, it is impossible and unsupported by moz-devs to keep up with the changes from there.

For this reason, there are a collection of new SDK packages available now (libjs185 and npapi-sdk).

As tracking xulrunner is no longer possible, we suggest to switch to npapi:

References:
  https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Plugins
  http://code.google.com/p/npapi-sdk/

The attached patch, courtesy to Wolgang Rosenauer, changes the build system to detect npapi-sdk instead of "mozilla-plugin".

(Patch is done against 0.6.17 release)

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2011-08-11 14:08:58 UTC

Comment on attachment 50140 [details] [review]
Switch to npapi

(In reply to comment #0)
> For this reason, there are a collection of new SDK packages available now
> (libjs185 and npapi-sdk).

Are they available in distros already?

> As tracking xulrunner is no longer possible, we suggest to switch to npapi:

Makes sense.

>diff --git a/configure b/configure
>index 12a1a4a..d8364c7 100755
>--- a/configure
>+++ b/configure
>@@ -20279,7 +20279,7 @@ if test -n "$PK_BROWSER_PLUGIN_CFLAGS"; then
>  elif test -n "$PKG_CONFIG"; then
>     if test -n "$PKG_CONFIG" && \
>     { { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors \"\\
>-			  mozilla-plugin	\\
>+			  npapi-sdk		\\
> 			  gio-unix-2.0		\\
> 			  nspr \\
> 			  cairo			\\

You need to change configure.ac rather than the generated file.

Richard.

Comment 2 Dominique Leuenberger 2011-08-12 00:22:13 UTC

Created attachment 50152 [details] [review]
D'Oh!. Of course configure.ac needs to be patched.

Comment 3 Dominique Leuenberger 2011-08-12 00:25:10 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> > For this reason, there are a collection of new SDK packages available now
> > (libjs185 and npapi-sdk).
> 
> Are they available in distros already?

Any distro going forward with FF5/6/7/xxx will need them for sure. libjs185 seems already to be widely around (not of interest for us here), npapi-sdk seems to show up these days (showed up in openSUSE dev branch)

> > As tracking xulrunner is no longer possible, we suggest to switch to npapi:
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> [...]
> 
> You need to change configure.ac rather than the generated file.

Of course. See the new patch.

Comment 4 Dominique Leuenberger 2013-01-12 12:02:30 UTC

I'm surprised to see this is not yet merged... are all distros just carrying a patch for this now?

Comment 5 Richard Hughes 2013-03-29 10:11:17 UTC

npapi-sdk doesn't seem available for me on Fedora, what package development files do I need to install?

Comment 6 Kalev Lember 2016-01-27 21:24:23 UTC

PackageKit has been able to build against npapi-sdk for a while already, nothing more to do here.

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