Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

fred smith wrote: >> >>However, I don't know what a reasonable setting of >>'enable-update-channel' should be instead? > > > No, I don't know either. I left out that setting from my mozconfig, > and when I fire up the new binary and choose "about firefox" it shows > "default" update channel. Dun

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:32:32PM +, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > > > For example, I don't think you want it to be on the release update > > channel,... wouldn't that cause the firefox update logic to automatically > > clobber your build with the next automatic update? which r

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

fred smith wrote: > > For example, I don't think you want it to be on the release update > channel,... wouldn't that cause the firefox update logic to automatically > clobber your build with the next automatic update? which resulting > Firefox then won't work--the whole reason why we're doing our

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:17:01PM +, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > > > OK, I've got all that installed. now when I run configure I get: > > > > checking For gcc visibility bug with class-level attributes (GCC bug > > 26905)... no > > checking For x86_64 gcc visibility

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

fred smith wrote: > > OK, I've got all that installed. now when I run configure I get: > > checking For gcc visibility bug with class-level attributes (GCC bug > 26905)... no > checking For x86_64 gcc visibility bug with builtins (GCC bug 20297)... > no > checking for gcc PR49

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:58:45PM -0500, fred smith wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:45:45PM +, James Pearson wrote: > > fred smith wrote: > > >> > > >>Are you sure that is used? > > > > > > It is if you follow Mozilla's build instructions, which are to build with > > > "mach". I think th

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:45:45PM +, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > >> > >>Are you sure that is used? > > > > It is if you follow Mozilla's build instructions, which are to build with > > "mach". I think that doing what you did will bypass mach. I tried it and > > got an error fu

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

fred smith wrote: >> >>Are you sure that is used? > > It is if you follow Mozilla's build instructions, which are to build with > "mach". I think that doing what you did will bypass mach. I tried it and > got an error further into the build regarding some missing python stuff > (but I haven't ins

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:03:17PM +, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > > > the build process explicitly checks for python 2.7 or greater, so how > > does 2.6 succeed? > > > > from the mach build tool: > > > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > # This Source Code Form is subject to

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

fred smith wrote: > > the build process explicitly checks for python 2.7 or greater, so how > does 2.6 succeed? > > from the mach build tool: > > #!/usr/bin/env python > # This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public > # License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:32:57AM +, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > > You can install a separate python 2.6 stack - e.g: > > > > > > This won't interfere with the default CentOS 5 python 2.4 install >

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: >>You can install a separate python 2.6 stack - e.g: >> >> >>This won't interfere with the default CentOS 5 python 2.4 install >> >>I think the firefox build process looks for a 'pyt

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

> You can install a separate python 2.6 stack - e.g: > > > This won't interfere with the default CentOS 5 python 2.4 install > > I think the firefox build process looks for a 'python2.6' binary - if > not, then just

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

fred smith wrote: > James: > > I gave it a quick try last night, and got hung up on the python version. > The build wants <= 2.7, and EL5 has something much older than that. > > I'd be afraid to just drop a new one in since thatwould probably break > lots of things. Unless I could put it in a pr

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 02:15:21PM +, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? > > > > I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) > > into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

fred smith wrote: >> >>In case anyone is interested, I managed to rebuild firefox 18.0.1 on >>CentOS 5 (i686) without too many problems >> >>It appears to run fine on CentOS 5 >> >>If anyone wants to know the details, then let me know > > > I've been thinking of trying to build it here, but have

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 02:15:21PM +, James Pearson wrote: > fred smith wrote: > > Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? > > > > I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) > > into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

fred smith wrote: > Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? > > I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) > into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system to > (in a shellscript that subsequently invokes ff 18) but so far I've

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On 01/10/2013 08:16 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Johnny Hughes > >> You guys do know that we are fairly up2date with firefox/thunderbird on >> their ESR program right? >> The Firefox/Thunderbird we have is totally updated for security and gets >> upstream support from Mozilla. It does not have eve

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

From: Johnny Hughes > You guys do know that we are fairly up2date with firefox/thunderbird on > their ESR program right? > The Firefox/Thunderbird we have is totally updated for security and gets > upstream support from Mozilla.  It does not have every feature, but it > has most and should stay o

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On 10 January 2013 14:01, James Hogarth wrote: > > Does the version bundled with Centos6 also track this schedule? It's >> currently 10.0.12 which made me decide to remove it from all desktop >> installations and install the newest on the fileserver. It's a bit of a >> hassle to do start though (

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

> Does the version bundled with Centos6 also track this schedule? It's > currently 10.0.12 which made me decide to remove it from all desktop > installations and install the newest on the fileserver. It's a bit of a > hassle to do start though (the nice menu entries get lost as well). > > 10.0.12es

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On 01/10/2013 07:47 AM, Theo Band wrote: > On 01/10/2013 02:39 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> You guys do know that we are fairly up2date with firefox/thunderbird on >>> their ESR program right? >>> >>> The Firefox/Thunderbird we have is totally updated for security and gets >>> upstream support from

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On 01/10/2013 02:39 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > You guys do know that we are fairly up2date with firefox/thunderbird on > >their ESR program right? > > > >The Firefox/Thunderbird we have is totally updated for security and gets > >upstream support from Mozilla. It does not have every feature, but i

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On 01/10/2013 07:37 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/10/2013 07:16 AM, fred smith wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:29:02AM -0800, John Doe wrote: >>> From: fred smith >>> Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (f

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On 01/10/2013 07:16 AM, fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:29:02AM -0800, John Doe wrote: >> From: fred smith >> >>> Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? >>> I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) >>> into a private directory, then usi

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:29:02AM -0800, John Doe wrote: > From: fred smith > > > Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? > > I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) > > into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system to >

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

From: fred smith > Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? > I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) > into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system to > (in a shellscript that subsequently invokes ff 18) but so far I've n

Re: [CentOS] firefox 18

> ./firefox: symbol lookup error: ./libstdc++.so.6: undefined symbol: > _ZNSt7num_getIcSt19istreambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traitsIcEEE2idE, version > GLIBCXX_3.4 > > and dunno either what I've done wrong, or what other things need to be > brought over. > > Clues appreciated. :) Haven't quite

[CentOS] firefox 18

Has anyone managed to get FF 18.0 to work on Centos 5.8? I've been hacking at it, placing a stack of .so files (from Centos 6) into a private directory, then using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point the system to (in a shellscript that subsequently invokes ff 18) but so far I've not managed to find the rig