Bug#352184: eclipse: cannot build from source with firefox support

Michael Koch konqueror at gmx.de
Fri Feb 10 12:01:12 UTC 2006


On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:41:22AM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
> Package: eclipse
> Version: 3.1.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the latest upload required me to install mozilla-browser, so I tried
> to build eclipse with firefox support. This adds a "firefox-dev"
> build dependency, which does not exist. So it is impossible to build
> eclipse with firefox support on Debian.
> Please enable the build with firefox on Debian, or even better,
> support both packages - firefox and mozilla - like the last version.

The support for firefox-dev is for Ubuntu. It doenst exist on Debian.
That is intentional.

We removed the Dependencies on firefox becuase it just doesnt work. We
are still investigating this. The only thing that works currently is the
mozilla-browser. firefox misses some symbol in its libraries. When this
solved we will readd the other browsers.


Cheers,
Michael
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