On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:28:18 Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Ehud Karni wrote: > > > > will adding a simple rule to make a real link, something like > > ln -f libplugin.so.0.1.2 plugin.so > > work for you ? > > > Right now I'm not working on a Mozilla plugin (I'm writing a plugin for > net-snmp agent, which is less anal about such things), so a link is > neither necessary nor particularly important. When writing Mozilla > plugins, the problem is not creating the links (running "make install" > create those links with no extra work). The problem is that mozilla > does, roughly, the following: > - Scan all files in the plugin directory > - For each file: As long as the type is "symlink", resolve where it > points to. > - Check whether the file name ends with ".so" > > So the above plan (link from .so to the real name) will simply not work. > Please don't ask me why that is what Mozilla does.
Shachar, I suggested a real (hard) link, not a symbolic link. The -f was to ensure re-linking even if the target exist. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
