On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> > yelp is pulling in firefox because you do not have xulrunner in USE. >> > firefox-bin is no use, the program needs the header files for either >> > firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner >> > instead of firefox in this situation, and in your USE flags. > >> I am currently having no problems. I use gnucash extensively and use >> firefox (not -bin) as well. Is the recommendation to switch and add >> xulrunner to USE? If the purpose is to avoid the need for firefox, >> that is not relevant to me. If, however, xulrunner in some way >> improves gnucash, I might well want to try it. > > It is to avoid the need for Firefox 2 installed from source, which is a > problem if you use Firefox 3 or firefox-bin. the xulrunner flag make > GnuCash, and other apps, build against xunrunner instead of the firefox 2 > headers.
Also, if you're going to use FF3, with xulrunner, FF3 will compile against xulrunner, thus reducing the FF3 build to time to a few minutes, as the LONG build already happened with xulrunner... -James > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Top Oxymorons Number 22: Childproof > -- [email protected] mailing list
