Bug 244497

Summary:	xulrunner/libgtkembemoz.so embedding fails silently.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Miguel de Icaza <miguel>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	wolfgang
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Miguel de Icaza 2007-02-11 13:50:09 UTC

In OpenSUSE 10.2, the only way of embedding Gecko is by using xulrunner-1.8.1b2, this is the only package that distributes libgtkembedmoz.so

But this embedding fails silently if the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME variable is not set and exported to point to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.8.1b2

This makes applications that use Mono's WebControl fail silently (no warning, no error message, just a blank screen, libgtkembedmoz just ignores every command sent). 

Could we patch our xulrunner to not depend on this setting, or could we have xulrunner package add a file to /etc/profile.d/xulrunner to set the variable to the proper directory?

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2007-02-11 19:02:02 UTC

Please see
http://www.rosenauer.org/blog/2006/07/11/the-mozilla-platform-on-suse/
about at least some background.
You simply can't decide or know which xulrunner or gecko versions are installed on a system. You only know which application needs which version of gecko and therefore you have to care of it within the application which embeds gecko to find the correct version. Gecko 1.9 should handle that automatically (more or less) through xulrunner and it's capability to locate different GRE versions installed on a system. 1.9 is still some months away and I can't imagine a good way to implement an easier way without breaking any other stuff.

Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2007-11-14 21:36:46 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 309746 ***