Gnash-devel not working with firefox

[Robert]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:29:28 -0700
Robert <traveling08 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:22:42 +0200
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 05:27:39AM -0700, Robert wrote:
> > > Greetings
> > > 
> > > For some reason gnash-devel is no longer showing as a plugin in
> > > firefox. I am not sure but it may have started with the last
> > > firefox upgrade (7.0.1,1). I have rebuilt gnash-devel and firefox
> > > to no avail.
> > > 
> > > This is happening on i386 8.2 stable, amd64 8.2 stable and i386
> > > 9.0 beta 3. Does anyone know if there has been a change? I never
> > > had to do any softlinks or anything else. I previously just
> > > installed gnash-devel and check the plugin option and it worked.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else seeing this? Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > I'm seeing this with all plugins installed in the global
> > directories. Looks like Firefox 7 modified something in the search
> > path for plugins.  Truss shows it's not looking in
> > /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/symlinks/gecko19 anymore.
> > 
> > It does look in /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins. I made the following
> > symlink in there to have it work again:
> > 
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel        35 Sep 29 14:12 plugins
> > -> ../browser_plugins/symlinks/gecko19
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this one needs to be fixed in the plugin ports or in
> > the firefox port.
> > 
> Thanks Guido
> 
> I was able to get gnash-devel to work with this symlink:
> 
> libgnashplugin.so -> ../browser_plugins/gnash-devel/libgnashplugin.so
>
Doh! Ignore that. Your symlink was all that was needed. I failed to
restart firefox after creating the symlink.

Robert