Jory A. Pratt posted on Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:24:20 -0500 as excerpted: > Goes to show you do not understand what you are talking about. The only > way to use libxul from version 5 on would have been to provide a symlink > into firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey as the system gre was killed. This > prevents any clean upgrade path hense the removal.
For anyone else without a clue what "gre" is in this context (graduate record exam? no, generic routing encapsulation? no), a bit of googling turned this up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/GRE Excerpts... Gecko Runtime Environment This embedding framework allows applications to locate a compatible Gecko runtime and embed it without knowing in advance where that runtime will be installed. XULRunner: the new GRE If you link directly against [libxpcom.so] your application will not launch unless [it] is in your PATH. This prevents dynamically finding a compatible GRE at runtime. The solution is to statically link against xpcomglue.lib, also known as the "standalone glue" Gecko 6.0 note (Firefox 6.0 / Thunderbird 6.0 / SeaMonkey 2.3) Support for locating a standalone glue was removed in Gecko 6.0 (Firefox 6.0 / Thunderbird 6.0 / SeaMonkey 2.3). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
