Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > --- Em sex, 18/5/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > >> De: Bruce Dubbs >> Assunto: [blfs-dev] Observations about firefox and xulrunner >> Para: "BLFS Development List" >> Data: Sexta-feira, 18 de Maio de 2012, 20:41 >> I can build both Firefox and >> Xulrunner on my new SVN-20120514 system but >> had some issues that may or may not be significant. >> > > > [...] > >> For FF, the command >> >> tar -xvf >> firefox-build-dir/dist/firefox-12.0.en-US.linux-$(uname >> -m).tar.bz2 -C /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 --strip-components=1 >> >> hung on me. I already had a /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 >> directory with items >> installed from previous builds, but deleting all the files >> there allowed >> the instruction ot complete. We may want to do >> something like: > > Same with me. I script now to test the directories and remove when necessary.
It's good to have confirmation. We probably need to put this in the book. > [...] > >> My problem was that I didn't have a firefox-build-dir >> directory or a > > Again, the same happened to me and also with xulrunner, now the scripts tests > and remove when needed. > >> I think we may need to clarify that make -f client.mk is >> still required >> but the options >> >> # ac_add_options --with-system-libxul >> # ac_add_options >> --with-libxul-sdk=/usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-12.0 >> >> will bypass most of the long build. >> > > [..] > >> On the new system, FF started and ran fine. > > I understand FF linked to xulrunner? Yes, it is the same code. I need to investigate a little more, but we need a littel more explanation here. >> --------- >> >> When I started FF, I looked at Help->About. Since I >> was using twm, I >> couldn't close that window! There is no close button >> for 'About' and >> twm doesn't have a window close function that I could >> find. This isn't >> a BLFS issue, but I thought it was worthy of comment. > > Perhaps you know, but you can exit with Ctrl-Q or Exit (or Quit, I have Sair, in pt-BR) in Firefox or File menu (depending on using or not Menu Bar in FF) I think this is a twm issue, but FF should handle it too. Ctrl-Q does not work for the splash screen. There is no menu either. It shouldn't be an issue for most window managers. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
