On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:22:56PM +1300, Simon Geard wrote: > > Actually, you can build against Firefox3, it's just a bit more work. > What you *can* do is use the Firefox sources to build and install the > xulrunner application, which can be used to build yelp and epiphany. You > can then build Firefox itself to use the system xulrunner instead of > rebuilding it again. > > I used the instructions given on this link to do it, basically the > Slackware build scripts. One exception is that you don't actually need > to download a separate xulrunner like they say - the Firefox sources > will work just as well. > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/firefox-3.0-and-xulrunner-1.9-slackbuilds-652498/ > > Simon.
I can remember reading some of that thread on linuxquestions while I was trying to sort out my compile options. I didn't know that the firefox code can build xulrunner, and I still don't understand that - in particular, where do you get the .pc files which epiphany and yelp will look for ? Thanks for confirming the small text is a webkit issue. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
