Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
snip Yes, sonames can be more or less arbitrary strings. You can certainly use sonames with debian in them with a fairly high degree of confidence that upstream won't collide with them. THAT is cool. FWIW, FYI, I did some work on that and managed to build xulrunner with basic sonames

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 06 décembre 2005 à 20:43 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : THAT is cool. FWIW, FYI, I did some work on that and managed to build xulrunner with basic sonames through quite clean additions to the mozilla build system for the base tree and the nspr tree. I still need to do similar work

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:04:57PM +0100, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mardi 06 décembre 2005 à 20:43 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit : THAT is cool. FWIW, FYI, I did some work on that and managed to build xulrunner with basic sonames through quite clean additions to the

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: Will all the tools resolving the dependencies be fine with a dependency on a virtual package without one an a real package ? (like for

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: So my idea is the following : - First, I want to provide the libs with a correct soname. It won't be compatible with upstream until some people use clue sticks, but i'll do my best for them to improve on that point. Having a

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: So my idea is the following : - First, I want to provide the libs with a correct soname. It won't be compatible with upstream until some

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:16:38AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:36AM -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:58:45AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: So my idea is the following : - First, I want to provide the libs with a

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-02 Thread Travis Crump
Mike Hommey wrote: Hi As you may or may not know, I'm currently working on packaging xulrunner, which is ought to be the central point for all future mozilla technology, meaning that at more or less long term, all mozilla products (firefox, thunderbird, etc.) will be built on top of it.

Re: [RFC] xulrunner, shlibs, and dependencies.

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:52:03PM -0800, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:47:47PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: As you may or may not know, I'm currently working on packaging xulrunner, which is ought to be the central point for all future mozilla