Re: Firefox/Thunderbird-1.5 build instructions

2005-12-07 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan Nicholson wrote: If anyone would like to try --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 (which is the default) vs. --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2, I'd be interested to hear a comparison. Unfortunately, I don't have the hardware to throw down consecutive builds for FF. Whereas Randy said the build t

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird-1.5 build instructions

2005-12-05 Thread Archaic
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 06:15:16PM +, Andrew Benton wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >No, as the ones Mozilla uses may be old, > > If Mozilla are using old versions of these libraries perhaps they have > a reason? Yeah, and a very common reason is that zlib is not their code so it doesn't get

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird-1.5 build instructions

2005-12-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Greg Schafer wrote: > I never understood why the BLFS book chose to fly in the > face of conventional upstream wisdom. IIRC, when we first put mozilla (before firefox and thunderbird existed) in the book, the build process was not quite the same. We also wanted the process to be similar to the p

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird-1.5 build instructions

2005-12-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 12/05/05 06:07 CST: > What do these options do? You already know the answer to this question. :-) Do these have any effect? Yes. I can see no advantage to using them. If the mozilla code has been tested with it's own versions of these things doesn't it ma

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird-1.5 build instructions

2005-12-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Dan Nicholson wrote: Lots of good stuff. I just want to quibble over some details. ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg ac_add_options --with-system-zlib ac_add_options --with-system-png What do these options do? Do these have any effect? I can see no advantage to using them. If the mozilla cod