on Friday 08/10/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Friday 10 August 2007 17:30:54 John covici wrote:
> > And now here is the relevant section of the config.log file.
> >
> > configure:23040: checking whether to compile the browser plugins
> > configure:23058: result: yes
> > configure:23064: checking which gecko to use
> > configure:23093: error: Gecko "firefox" not found
> >
> > If you need amy more from that log, let me know.
>
> Ok, this was all of the relevant lines from config.log in this case.
> Sometimes
> a little context which shows that there is nothing more of relevance is
> useful to make sure no error messages are missing. Anyway the relevant
> command from the configure script would be:
>
> # pkg-config --exists firefox-xpcom
>
> which returns false in your case. You'd be more interested in:
>
> # pkg-config --exists --print-errors firefox-xpcom
>
> though, as that prints a human readable error message. I bet `equery check
> mozilla-firefox` will report that some files from firefox are missing. In
> particular /usr/lib/pkgconfig/firefox-xpcom.pc is apparently missing are
> something. In either case remerging (or in your case upgrading) firefox
> should fix it...
>
OK, that did the trick and solved the problem with yelp which was
having similar problems except it said gtk2 geco build.
Thanks.
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