On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:16:21AM -0600, Rob Savoye wrote: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > > Since they don't know about compilation I'm trying to offer them Gnash > > binaries (they are running Debian). > > There should be snapshots in .deb format (x86) on getgnash.org.
Yes, though there are missing in 'releases/'. The other day, I installed my packages from http://gnash.cliss21.com/ on a Lenny box, and it made Firefox 3 crash, so I'm trying to minimize the unsafe factors - so no snapshots :p Btw, the binaries would be even more useful with a: apt-get install apt-ftparchives cd /packages/snapshots/debian/lenny/ apt-ftparchives packages . | gzip > Packages.gz so they can be used in sources.list: deb http:///packages/snapshots/debian/lenny/ ./ Similarly for Fedora you could also use 'createrepo .'. That's what I use for GNU FreeDink: http://www.freedink.org/releases/debian/Makefile http://www.freedink.org/releases/fedora/Makefile > > In the past I've helped with Gnash backports(.org) but this is still > > too complex, firstly because it requires editing sources.list, > > I thought an up to date Gnash 0.8.5 was in the "experimental" repository. It's a pre-release version from February, and as you mentioned, it's in experimental, so it's not meant to be installed on Etch or Lenny, and it's non-trivial to setup. The current bug for 0.8.5 packaging is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518265 > > So I'd like to experiment with the XPI solution that was mentioned at > > gnashdev.org a while ago. However I don't know at all where to start! > > do you have advice or documentation about it? How did you compile the > > latest .xpi? > > "make xpi". :-) it basically builds gnash with all the internal > libraries statically linked. Then you do a "make xpi-bundle", and it > recompiles the plugin to be dynamically linked (cause it has to), and > makes the xpi package. It'll install just fine, but if you have an > problems with the XPCOM support not finding the executable in the users > profile directory, set "GNASH_PLAYER" so it'll find it. Thanks, I'll try that :) Hmm, it complains about a missing prerelease directory: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnash-0.8.5/testsuite' find gnash-0.8.5 -type d ! -perm -777 -exec chmod a+rwx {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -links 1 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -400 -exec chmod a+r {} \; -o \ ! -type d ! -perm -444 -exec /bin/sh /usr/src/gnash-0.8.5/install-sh -c -m a+r {} {} \; \ || chmod -R a+r gnash-0.8.5 mv: cannot stat `gnash-prerelease': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat `gnash-prerelease_20090406/configure.ac': No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 10: gnash-prerelease_20090406/configure.ac: No such file or directory /bin/sh: line 12: cd: gnash-prerelease_20090406: No such file or directory Running libtoolize 1.5.26 --force --copy --ltdl ... You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal. ls: cannot access libltdl/*: No such file or directory libtoolize: cannot list files in `/usr/share/libtool/libltdl' **Error**: libtoolize failed, do you have libtool and libltdl3-dev packages installed? tar: gnash-prerelease_20090406: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ... How is it meant to be used? I just used: ./configure --enable-gui=gtk --enable-renderer=agg make xpi I see that packaging/debian/ is also missing in the tarball when running 'make deb' - I guess all this only works with snapshots and/or bzr checkouts? > > (Btw, I read somewhere that there's patents issues with distributing > > such binaries: I don't have this problem because I live in Europe.) > > That would only be if you statically linked in ffmpeg, which nobody > does. Gnash itself is patent free, but the codecs are not. Reading videos with Gnash is one of my goals. To make the XPI as cross-distro as possible, I guess I have to statically link it too. -- Sylvain _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list Gnash-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
