On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:05:10AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:50:56AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Last time I built gnash, it didn't have much use for me as a > firefox plugin. At that time, Andy was around and he confirmed it > worked for him. Since then, I've discovered that I hadn't installed > all of the necessary headers, so I was hopeful that this build would > be more useful. But it does next to nothing - enough for firefox to > recognise it as a plugin for flash, but nothing I tried did > anything, and even the "hear before you buy" flash clips at linn > records didn't work this time. So, I know how to build it, but > (like transcode, where I'm still exploring the options), I can't say > it works, and I think that labelling it as built but not tested > would be misleading. > I'm still lacking flash videos which work. At times, a couple of railway modelling forums (fora?) I frequent are littered with links, particularly to youtube, which always link to a flash download - but try finding one when you need to test it :) Meanwhile, the "play before you buy" audio clips at linn records are again working for me. I think the difference I've made is to add the following (tried some other things first, on a site which still doesn't render at all in gnash) to configure, taken from fedora [ gentoo have some other switches, but it fails to configure if I use those! ] :
--enable-gui=gtk,sdl --enable-doublebuf --disable-jemalloc I can't describe this as an outbreak of joy, but it's now no worse than it was for me on my June/July build, so good enough. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
