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
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