Andrew Benton wrote these words on 12/20/05 17:20 CST: >> B) GNOME VFS can probably be removed as it also requires libgnomeui >> to build the gnomevfs Firefox extension (libgnomeui requires >> GNOME VFS). I, however, have never had good luck getting this >> extension to actually build. > > Works fine here, though it doesn't really add much and it is a bit sloooww > so, yeah, ditch it.
Actually, I didn't mean to ditch all the GNOME stuff, just the reference to the GNOME-VFS dependency because it is redundant if you already must install libgnomeui. But thanks for the message that it builds, and that Firefox finally doesn't give a message of "disabling gnomevfs extension ...". Seems to me, this was all I ever got in the past, though I would have GNOME installed. I could be mistaken, however. >>ac_add_options --disable-installer >> >>(why disable this? my testing showed it didn't really increase >>the time to build significantly) > > It builds a small binary mozilla-installer-bin. It's only 162 bytes here. > It's not needed with the method you've described, but disabling it adds an > extra command that needs to be explained. This was exactly my thought. It was just an extra command that had to be explained, though it caused very little overhead. >>ac_add_options \ >> --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/firefox-1.5 # >> MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME >> >>(this one is included above in the file I used, but like Andy, I >>wonder about its usefulness. > > > I'm still wondering ;) I'd be happier without it because I don't think it's > needed, but I don't think it does any harm. I just think we should provide > explanations for the commands we use (except for the really obvious stuff > like --prefix=/usr) and if we don't have a reason why we use a command, don't > use it. Again, Andy, my sentiments exactly. If we're going to redo the instructions, let's describe everything well, so that folks can understand what these switches do. This is one reason why I am now leaning to not liking that MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME stuff. It would be difficult explain why we are using it. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 17:41:00 up 87 days, 3:05, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.15, 0.34 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
