Author: ken
Date: Wed Aug 3 16:56:27 2016
New Revision: 17624
Log:
firefox-48.0, and remove the now-invalid reference to gstreamer in mozconfig,
also the lingering reference to webm.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Aug 1 20:30:29 2016 (r17623)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Wed Aug 3 16:56:27 2016 (r17624)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "01"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "03"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "08"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2016">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "August 1st &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "August 3rd &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!-- x.y|development -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Aug 1 20:30:29
2016 (r17623)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Wed Aug 3 16:56:27
2016 (r17624)
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>August 3rd, 2016</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Update to firefox-48.0. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8137">#8137</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>August 1st, 2016</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Mon Aug 1 20:30:29 2016 (r17623)
+++ trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Wed Aug 3 16:56:27 2016 (r17624)
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@
<!-- Chapter 43 -->
<!ENTITY seamonkey-version "2.40">
-<!ENTITY firefox-version "47.0.1">
+<!ENTITY firefox-version "48.0">
<!-- Chapter 44 -->
<!ENTITY balsa-version "2.5.2">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml Mon Aug 1 20:30:29 2016
(r17623)
+++ trunk/BOOK/xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml Wed Aug 3 16:56:27 2016
(r17624)
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
<!ENTITY firefox-download-http
"&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz">
<!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp " ">
- <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum "aba4b673b10e3fdcee80f88300829613">
+ <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum "df52f6cfdf98e10b3f036479f38406c4">
<!ENTITY firefox-size "180 MB">
- <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize "5.7 GB (85 MB installed)">
- <!ENTITY firefox-time "18 SBU (with parallelism=4 on a recent intel
i7, much longer on lesser CPUs)">
+ <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize "5.3 GB (84 MB installed)">
+ <!ENTITY firefox-time "12 SBU (with parallelism=4 on a recent intel
i7, much longer on lesser CPUs)">
]>
<sect1 id="firefox" xreflabel="Firefox-&firefox-version;">
@@ -74,12 +74,6 @@
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>
- Required patch if using gcc-6 or later
- <ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-gcc6-1.patch"/>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
Required patch if using gtk+-3.20 or later (do not use with earlier
versions)
<ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-gtk320-1.patch"/>
</para>
@@ -88,7 +82,7 @@
<para>
Optional patch to allow system versions of <xref
linkend="graphite2"/>
and <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/> - this should be regarded as
experimental
- <ulink
url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-system_graphite2_harfbuzz-1.patch"/>
+ <ulink
url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-system_graphite2_harfbuzz-2.patch"/>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -97,6 +91,21 @@
<para>
The tarball
<emphasis>firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz</emphasis>
will untar to <emphasis>firefox-&firefox-version;</emphasis> directory.
+ However, if you do this in a directory where the sticky bit is set,
such
+ as <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> it will end with error
+ messages:
+ </para>
+
+<literallayout>tar: .: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
+tar: .: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-t: Operation not permitted
+tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
+</literallayout>
+
+ <para>
+ This does finish with non-zero status, but it does
+ <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> mean there is a real problem.
+ Do not untar as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user
+ in a directory where the sticky bit is set - that will unset it.
</para>
</note>
@@ -152,10 +161,8 @@
<xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
<xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
<xref linkend="GConf"/>,
- <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> (runtime) or
- <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-base"/> (with
- <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-good"/> and
- <xref linkend="gst10-libav"/> at runtime),
+ <xref linkend="evince"/> (for a plugin to display tiff, {e,}ps, Comic
Book),
+ <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> (runtime),
<xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
<xref linkend="openjdk"/>,
<xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
@@ -205,14 +212,6 @@
# this line
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
-# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player if
-# FFmpeg is not found at runtime;
-# to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
-# in about:config. If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, comment out this line and
-# uncomment the following one:
-ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
-#ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0
-
# Uncomment this option if you wish to build with gtk+-2
#ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
@@ -282,12 +281,6 @@
</para>
<para>
- Fix an issue with GCC-6.0 and higher:
- </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i
../firefox-&firefox-version;-gcc6-1.patch</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>
If you are using gtk+-3.20 or later, apply a patch to restore the
slider on scrollbars:
</para>
@@ -374,14 +367,6 @@
<title>Configuring Firefox</title>
<para>
- If you did not add the <option>--disable-webm</option> option to your
- <filename>mozconfig</filename>, your <application>Firefox</application>
- can play most YouTube videos without the need for the Flash plugin.
- Go to <ulink url="http://www.youtube.com/html5"/> to see which HTML5
- video features your browser supports on YouTube.
- </para>
-
- <para>
If you use a desktop environment like <application>Gnome</application> or
<application>KDE</application> you may like to create a
<filename>firefox.desktop</filename> file so that
@@ -445,7 +430,7 @@
<term><command>firefox</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- is a <application>GTK+ 2</application> internet browser that uses
the
+ is a <application>GTK+ 3</application> internet browser that uses
the
Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
</para>
<indexterm zone="firefox firefox-prog">
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