[PATCH] NP_GetMIMEDescription() returns const char*

[Omair Majid]

Hi Thomas,

On 12/10/2011 08:11 AM, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Thomas Meyer<thomas at m3y3r.de>
> # Date 1323522372 -3600
> # Node ID 2b69ce95feb38023b2be8bec3bc87f2219d0c80b
> # Parent  3674bf4ef962a752a05bf7bfa5aee19a817c4834
>
> /usr/include/xulrunner-sdk-2/npfunctions.h defines "const char* NP_GetMIMEDescription(void);"
> make icedtea-web version also return a const char*
> This fix is needed to make icedtea-web compile on Fedora 16.
>

Thanks for the patch. This patch is already included in Fedora [1]. We 
are aware of the issue [2], but there is so simple fix. If we apply this 
patch, it breaks icedtea-web builds on distributions using an older 
version of xulrunner :(

Cheers,
Omair

[1] 
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=icedtea-web.git;a=blob;f=icedtea-web-1.1.4-npapi-fix.patch;h=79ca0a6c009d310de5eb082d9ae5291da46e7dde;hb=refs/heads/f16

[2] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-November/016240.html