On 27 Aug 2014, at 13:22, Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 8/26/14, 10:25 PM, Chris Pearce wrote:
>> With the landing of  Bug 1045209, starting today in Firefox Nightly builds 
>> the disk layout of GMPs changed to accomodate multiple versions of a GMP 
>> being resident on disk. The consequence of that is that the usage of 
>> MOZ_GMP_PATH also changed. You are now must have a version subdirectory of 
>> your "gmp-*" directory, and put your .dll/.dylib/.so and ..info files in 
>> there.
>> 
>> i.e. previously you could have:
>> 
>> MOZ_GMP_PATH=/home/username/src/gmp-foobar/
>> 
>> ... and now you'll need:
>> 
>> MOZ_GMP_PATH=/home/username/src/gmp-foobar/some_arbitrary_version_string/
>> 
>> What you call the version subdir is completely arbitrary for the purposes of 
>> using MOZ_GMP_PATH.
> 
> Was this intentional? This seems like an unfortunate side-effect of the 
> OpenH264-specific versioning which shouldn't have affected the GMP service at 
> all.

This is a side-effect of how both GMPParent & GMPChild currently depend on the 
path/dir structure, i filed bug 1053727 on that earlier.

Georg

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