On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:27:23 -0500 (CDT)
[email protected] wrote:
> "ASUS P5E-VM HDMI" with Intel G35/ICH9R.
> Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, 4GB
> (B)LFS i686-pc-linux-gnu 2.6.37.3, Xorg-7.6
> glib-2.28.3, gtk+-3.0.3, sqlite-3.7.5, etc.
>
> To Whom It May Concern:
>
> On a dare, I decided to install the freshly released Firefox 4.0.
> It was also on a "squeeze" - the 3.6.14 and 3.6.15 failed me miserably:
> I had lost my beloved back and forward arrows of the navigation buttons
> (see Bug 640850). I was also beyond a GTK+-2/3 version where I may
> have "fixed" the problem by going back to 3.6.13.
>
You can fix the back and forward arrows by setting a gtk theme
> The highlights of the successful installation are in the following.
> If one soul is helped by them, my sacrifice wouldn't've been in vain.
>
> PUNCHES by Firefox
> 1. Needs nspr >= 4.8.7
> 2. Needs nss >= 3.12.9
No it doesn't. I don't install nspr or nss and current firefox compiles
fine for me.
> 3. Needs libpng _with_ "apng"
> 4. Needs cairo _with_ "tee"
>
> COUNTER PUNCHES by me (keyed to above)
> 1. Installed nspr-4.8.7 (latest)
> 2. Installed nss-3.12.9 (latest)
> 3. This left me reeling.
> BLFS has libpng-1.2.44.
> The latest version ("on the street") is 1.5.1
> Installed 1.5.1 but, unfortunately the 1.2.44 patch
> for "apng" doesn't work on 1.5.1.
> In desperation, I commented out the
> "ac_add_options --with-system-png" line
> and damn the torpedoes.
Did you not try using google?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/files/libpng/libpng15/
> 4. Re-built cairo-1.10.2 with
> "--enable-tee".
>
> Here, you get an unsettling message after the configure,
>
> << The tee surface backend feature is still under active development
> and is included in this release only as a preview.
> It does NOT fully work yet and incompatible changes may yet be made
> to tee surface backend specific API. >>
>
> but nobody expects Firefox-4.0 to be for the faint of heart.
You'll live.
Andy
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