[Enigmail] building the IPC library with xulrunner-dev instead of a full build tree

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> howdy enigmail folks--
> 
[...]
> 
> However, debian distributes a xulrunner-dev package which appears to be
> intended in part to support builds of xpcom extensions (i believe this
> is also known as gecko SDK).  The ipc library is technically an xpcom
> extension, right?

correct.

> So: would it be possible to build the ipc extension against
> xulrunner-dev directly, without setting up a full mozilla build-tree and
> half-configuring it?  I'd be happy to experiment with ways to do that,
> if anyone can point me in the right direction.

I think it should be technically possible, even though I have never
tried it.

> I've tried already with no success, but i have no experience building
> xpcom extensions, and i'm leery of superstitiously tampering with the
> source just to get the build to work smoothly.  The latest version i
> could find [1] does compile cleanly if i have a pre-compiled external
> source tree, i just want to make it build from the system-installed
> development headers instead.  Is this trivial to do, and i'm just
> ignorant of the switches/settings to use?  Or am i chasing a
> fundamentally impossible goal?

I think it's not trivial at all. If I were you, I'd try to find out how
Enigmail is built on Debian (i.e. download the Enigmail source package
of Debian) and follow the way it's done there.

HTH,
Patrick
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