212211 - Realplayer plugin no longer recognized with Mozilla 1.4 RPMS for Red Hat Linux 8.0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 178805

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Thomas Chung]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703

I've decided to file an offical bug report since the other bug (198562) was
filed for Moziall 1.3.

Once again, I've installed a fresh copy of Red Hat Linux 8.0 then installed
Mozilla 1.4 RPMS for Red Hat Linux 8.0 as well as Real Player 8.0 RPM with
mozilla plugin configured. As I reported in the other bug (198562), Real Player
plugin does not work any more.

As a test, I removed all Mozilla 1.4 RPMs for RH 8.0 and installed a generic
tarball for Mozilla 1.4 and Real Player Plugin is working again.

Another test, I installed Mozilla 1.4 RPMs for RH 7.3 instead of RH 8.0 on my
Red Hat Linux 8.0 and the Real Player Plugin is working too.

At this point, I can't only conclude there is compatiblity issue between XFT
compiled RPMS for RH 8.0 and RealPlayer Plugin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Fresh Install Red Hat Linux 8.0
2.Fresh Install Mozilla 1.4 RPMs for RH 8.0
3.Fresh Install Real Player 8.0 with mozilla plugin configured

Actual Results:  
Real Player Plugin does not work under Mozilla 1.4 RPMs for RH 8.0

Expected Results:  
I expcted to work under Mozilla 1.4 RPMSs for RH 8.0

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This seems like a direct duplicate of bug 198562.  Something in the combination
of gtk2 and GCC 3.x makes things incompatible (lots of api and ABI changes
there, basically).

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

actually, it's really bug 178805.  Mozilla's gtk2 code does not have the hacks
implemented in its gtk1 code to allow older plugins to work with gcc3-compiled
Mozillas.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178805 ***

Comment 3

[Thomas Chung]

Ok, I rebuilt the source rpm for RH8.0 without gtk2 option.
After two hours of re-compiling I now have new 11 rpms for RH8.0 without gtk2
but xft still enabled.

Here is the result:

It works!! I now have Mozilla 1.4 RPMs for RH 8.0 which is fully compatible with
older plugins specially RealPlayer 8.

So anyone care to try my rpms?  Where can I contribute this rpms to?

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178805 ***