Re: [Gnash-dev] Help with building a XPI

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:09:24PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:17:01PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:58:46PM -0600, Rob Savoye wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:49:37PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Hmm, it complains about a missing prerelease directory:
> > > 
> > >   Oops, that I'll have to fix. If you change "prerelease" to "trunk", it
> > > should work.
> > 
> > Well, I think that it doesn't work from the release tarball, and it
> > doesn't work from the release branch (release_0_8_5) either.
> > 
> > I'll try with a version in trunk.
> 
> Apparently the resulting binary (gtk-gnash) isn't statically compiled
> :/ (it still depends on libspeex, libgnutls, libjpeg, libz, etc.)
> 
> Stripping the executable saves 90% of the size, so you might consider
> doing that too :)
> 
> In addition, I get an error with Firefox 3, "will not be installed
> because it does not provide secure updates".  I can only guess that
> FF3 requires an https URL for the updates, but I'm not sure. Do you
> know about this?

I should also note that there's a work-around to disable this check:
http://code.google.com/p/foxtorrent/issues/detail?id=98
But the author doesn't know the cause of the error either.

-- 
Sylvain