On Sat, 19 May 2012 01:01:28 +0100 Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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: > > rm -rf /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 && > mkdir /usr/lib/firefox-12.0 && Fair enough, it never occurred to me that people may be reinstalling Firefox. > The instructions on the firefox page says: > > If you have linked against an already installed Xulrunner, as the root > user: > > make -C firefox-build-dir install && > ... > > My problem was that I didn't have a firefox-build-dir directory Then you must have altered your mozconfig or make -f client.mk failed. > 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. The page says "Compile Firefox by issuing the following commands:" (which include make -f client.mk) and in the mozconfig it says: # The rest of these options have no effect if you're # building against an already installed xulrunner: I don't see why anyone would want to install xulrunner. I don't think the Firefox page should mention xulrunner. It is complicated enough to describe the options without xulrunner, adding a useless xulrunner into the mix doesn't help. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
