[Bugs] #137 MINO: Use standalone glue not rpath linking for xulrunner

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#137: Use standalone glue not rpath linking for xulrunner
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Reporter:  morgs   |       Owner:  marcopg
    Type:  defect  |      Status:  new    
Priority:  minor   |   Component:  hulahop
Keywords:          |  
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 In Ubuntu, for some reason, xulrunner packages (which include pyxpcom) put
 the files in /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.5/ not /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/. This
 gets changed for every Firefox security update, which means that hulahop
 needs recompiling against xulrunner every time to find the newer
 xulrunner.

 This means that every Firefox update breaks our packaged hulahop, and it's
 non trivial to push a package update that simply rebuilds hulahop every
 time - Firefox updates are usually security fixes so we don't get advance
 warning of them, and then hulahop is broken for days (if not weeks) while
 we push an update.

 I asked the ubuntu mozilla packagers for help, and the answer they gave is
 here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-
 mozillateam/2008-November/000531.html

 I hope this can be fixed in a back-portable way since we have to support
 ubuntu hardy for 3 years, and I wouldn't like to have to rebuild hulahop
 for every firefox update...

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/137>
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