Re: Can't build gxine without libmozjs

I demand that Rashkae may or may not have written...

> I'm trying to build the latest gxine from source (since the package that
> ships with Ubuntu Karmic is painfully buggy.)  But I've run into a show
> stopper.

> It seems there's a problem with the libmozjs-dev package, which cannot be
> installed without removing Firefox.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner/+bug/119573
https://bugs.launchpad.net/xulrunner/+bug/286906
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9/+bug/273956

(You could try making use of pbuilder.)

[snip]
> I try:

> ./configure  --without-browser-plugin --without-spidermonkey 
> --disable-mozjs --disable-ffjs --disable-seajs  --disable-deprecated

That won't work, as you've found out.

[snip]
> Is there something more than I can do? or another Front End you can
> suggest?  (Kaffeine no longer even lets you configure or enable
> de-interlacing, and Xine UI tends to lock up X when scrolling dialogue
> choices in the Configuration UI, a problem that I've had with all versions
> since 2007!, not to mention that I can't find where to configure it's
> de-interlacing to use pulldown/film mode)

xine-ui from hg should be fine; you need to set configuration experience
level to "advanced".

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