> You are aware that current BLFS has Firefox 45, not 38, correct? Yes, Chris, of course, but I'm still working on building a 7.7 system that recommends -36. I wanted to upgrade that a bit.
> I think Paul got sucked in by the Extended Support Release name: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ Certainly, Ken. Firefox has been known to have flaws needing attention. I was hoping the ESR would be a "better" release. Unfortunately, IMO, since they've gotten on this "rapid release" kick, the quality of the builds has gone down, "Don't worry about it, we'll fix it in the next release." NOT! I just tried -39 and it failed in the same place. One wonders how THEY get their binaries built... > These *are* still maintained for a few releases of current firefox, so > they should get the vulnerability fixes. But almost nobody here > builds them. ;-) You guys throw them away and go on to the next too fast to matter! > I think Andrew is right - the link probably needs more space. Nope, even when this most recent -39 try finished it had 7.6GB free disk. > .../Linux_and_MacOS_build_preparation > > mentions 2GB RAM with lots of available swap space, recommends 6GB That RAM is obvoiusly per make job. I was running 6 on my 12GB i7, and top in another xterm. I saw up to 42.5% memory commitment from top. That's fine, never want 100%! I don't know, going back to -j1? That'd be slow, but no slower than trying for more than a day on this... > free disk space for optimized builds. It then says "As of early 2015, > it is no longer possible to do a full compile of Firefox from source > on most 32-bit systems; a 64-bit OS is required." > > Sounds unlikely, but who knows. I compiled -35.0.1 on my 32-bit 7.2 system. Don't know how that figures. p.s. finally got my digest, after 2PM PST. Ususally comes at noon. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
