At Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:46:44 -0700 James Ausmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>> > yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. >>> > firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either >>> > firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner >>> > instead of firefox in this situation, and in your USE flags. >> >>> I am currently having no problems. I use gnucash extensively and use >>> firefox (not -bin) as well. Is the recommendation to switch and add >>> xulrunner to USE? If the purpose is to avoid the need for firefox, >>> that is not relevant to me. If, however, xulrunner in some way >>> improves gnucash, I might well want to try it. >> >> It is to avoid the need for Firefox 2 installed from source, which is a >> problem if you use Firefox 3 or firefox-bin. the xulrunner flag make >> GnuCash, and other apps, build against xunrunner instead of the firefox 2 >> headers. > > Also, if you're going to use FF3, with xulrunner, FF3 will compile > against xulrunner, thus reducing the FF3 build to time to a few > minutes, as the LONG build already happened with xulrunner... I see. When FF3 becomes stable, I will turn on xulrunner. Thanks for the explanations. allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
