Firefox 3 Beta 2 in Rawhide

[Martin Stransky]

Braden McDaniel wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:22 +0100, Martin Stransky wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> If you're a package maintainer and your package already uses xulrunner,
>> please rebuild it against the new rawhide version. Xulrunner directory
>> has been changed and many gecko packages (if not all) are linked with
>> --rpath linker directive. As long as rpath is used you have to rebuild
>> gecko-libs based packages after each xulrunner change so please consider
>> to remove it. Gecko libraries are registered system wide by
>> /etc/ld.so.conf.d and rpath should not be necessary in rawhide.
> 
> But isn't it the case that the libraries in question do not have
> soversions?
> 
> If the rpath is eliminated, how do we know when things really *do* need
> to break?

gecko-libs 1.9 exports only frozen interfaces so ideally we don't need 
to rebuild any package unless we move to a completely new gecko (firefox 
4 ;-))