On 6/26/06, Andrey Voropaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

First of all, the list of extensions for firefox may cause the
compilation problems during build. Looks like some of those extensions
expect more packages to be installed. So, after a bit of struggle I've
removed the explicit list and let the firefox build system to decide.
So, the building part was complete.

Could you please show the error?  configure should be handling this
and removing extensions that you don't have the dependencies for like
gnome-vfs.

But running firefox for the first time was a bit tricky. It would
simply segfault. Here strace helped. First I saw that it was trying to
find .Xdefaults file or its equivivalent. I didn't have it. After
adding it the next stumbling block was searching for fonts directory.
Firefox wanted to find /usr/share/fonts (which I also didn't have) or
fonts for ghostscript (not installed yet). After adding symlink from
/usr/share/fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts the program finally
started and works fine.

I didn't believe Alexander when he said no one reads the font
configuration section.  Now after about the 5th email this month were
someone failed to configure their fonts, I believe him.

Please read this section.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x-setup.html#fonts

However, you should have the /usr/share/fonts directory already if you
followed the instructions in the BLFS SVN book.  What version are you
using?

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Dan
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