On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:12:44PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote these words on 03/02/09 12:56 CST: > > > But, as we have now established, when firefox is built on top of > > xulrunner, the switch is redundant. So, system-cairo is enabled in > > the xulrunner mozconfig and commented for firefoxi (doh!, these > > extraneous vowels will be the death of me). > > I just don't understand. Could you please lay it out in layman's terms. > > I'm not trying to be a pest, I'm trying to understand. Your messages > seem to completely miss my point. > > I'll ask a simple question. Please just answer it in simple terms. > > When would one ever build stand-alone Firefox without cairo being > on the system?
On linux, never (you can't, at least according to the toolkit options listed in configure). The switch tells it to prefer what is already installed to what is shipped. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
