On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:29:39AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: > On 3/24/20 10:18 AM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: > > > > I'm a touch confused about the following in the Firefox mozconfig > > documentation: > > > > # Do not specify the gold linker which is not the default. It will take > > # longer and use more disk space when debug symbols are disabled. > > > > There seems to be no action to be taken. Most other lines specify a > > line to comment/uncomment. What's a gold linker? > > > > Two other areas: > > > > # From firefox-61 system cairo is not supported > > > > ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi > > ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman > > > > Again, there seems no action to be taken. Are the two ac_add_options > > lines related to the cairo statement.? > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > # From firefox-62 --with-pthreads is not recognized > > > > ac_add_options --with-system-bz2 > > ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg > > ac_add_options --with-system-png > > ac_add_options --with-system-zlib > > > > The same as above. Are the four ac_add_options lines related to the > > pthreads statement? > > > > To be clear, the mozconfig file works well, I'm just curious. > > Those options used to be in the book. They are clarifications that they > have been removed. > > -- Bruce > Yes indeed. I make many of the updates to firefox, and I'm aware that a number of people use their own scripts and also come from a past version, so I try to make it easier for them to see what has changed - mozconfig is long, and not easy to read, unlike most invocations of configure or meson.
Actually, I think the gold linker might still be the default if clang is used. Thunderbird in BLFS uses clang, it could similarly use gcc, g++, also the patch for system harfbuzz (and system graphite until tb moves to the next firefox ESR base version), but without taking time to measure the different builds I do not know for certain that using gcc and g++ would save time or build space in thunderbird. ĸen -- When alle is ſayed and all is done, ye must chooſe your faces wisely, for soon enouff ye will be playing with fyre." The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Prophecy 5004 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
