On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 04:53:29PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> 
> > Actually, there were some useful ideas there.  They just didn't work for
> > me.  Right now I'm building ff-21.
> 
> Well that didn't work.  It gets to a point where is is linking libxul.so
> and dies because it can't find the entries 'vorbis_block_init' and 
> similar links.  The build log is 42K lines when it dies and libxul.so 
> seems to include about 3000 object files.  In any case is does *not* 
> have -lvorbis where the references are located.
> 
> I did have to add an option to mozconfig, --disable-dash, and I did have 
> a problem with webm and had to disable that too.  My options that are 

 If you disable webm, it will not be able to play html5 from
youtube.  To be honest, if you don't need xulrunner for something
else then building firefox without it seems to be easier these days.

 I'll hazard a guess that libvorbis, maybe even vorbis-tools, is/are
needed for html5 on youtube.
> 
> I finally did download the binary.  I went to YouTube and the 
> interesting thing is that I can't seem to get the html5 files at all. 

 You probably dropped out of the html5 test.  That used to happen to
me frequently when I installed a newer firefox release.  Nowadays
I've had to rejoin the test less often.  I'll guess that the binary
perhaps uses a different dot directory.

> Everything is flash rendered and sound (via gnash) is OK.  Some sites 
> (e.g. cnn, pbs) demand adobe flash for video, but I can live without it.
> 
 I'm surprised that gnash works so well for you - for me it had
short periods of a couple of months or less when it mostly worked at
youtube.  But for other flash sites I had almost zero success, ever.
> I guess it's time to start a new fresh blfs build, but I'll do that on 
> my development system.
> 
>    -- Bruce
 Firefox was the the final package which made me retire my old
LFS-6.6 "long-term" system on my old x86_64 - the gnome (2.32-ish)
packages were already unmaintained, and recent firefox needs much
newer versions of *everything* (or, avoiding the system versions as
you did).

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