Re: [Mplayerplug-in-devel] possible bug in make process

[James B. <Xor...@co...>]

On 31 Dec, Kevin Brammer wrote:
> Today I downloaded the  mplayerplug-in-3.17.tar.gz file from the
> homepage.  I used the following configure commands:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr  --enable-wmp --enable-qt
> --enable-rm  --enable-gmp
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1. How can I tell it to also link again /usr/lib/firefox, since it's
> only finding mozilla?
> 
> 2. The bug is being shown here:
> 
> ./install.sh
> Installing plugin system wide
> Installing into ${moz_libdir}/plugins
> mkdir: cannot create directory `${moz_libdir}/plugins': No such file
> or directory
> 
> 
> which then throws it into my source tree directory:
> 
> 
> bash-3.00# ls -l | head -5
> total 19369
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root       72 2005-12-31 12:42 ${moz_libdir}
> -rw-r--r--  1 kevlinux users   45808 2005-12-07 12:49 ChangeLog
> drwxr-xr-x  3 kevlinux users      72 2005-12-07 12:50 DOCS
> -rw-r--r--  1 kevlinux users    3073 2005-02-13 12:58 INSTALL
> 
> Is it a bug, or something in my build?


Hard to tell.  I think the INSTALLING instructions in the INSTALL
section are a bit out-of-date and vague.  Just copy the .so and .xpt
files where you want them.  You'll probably need to be root.

cp *.so /usr/lib/firefox
cp *.xpt /usr/lib/firefox

Restart mozilla.

Good luck!