Hi Alex, 
Am Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:41:48 +0100 schrieb Alex Thurgood:
> Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
>> Did you clean the build-tree after changing configure flags or did you
>> just try to continue with the changed configure values?
>> 
>>   
> 
> No, just re-executed the .config command with changed flags, this is how
> I compile my ports on FreeBSD. Do you have to clean everything out each
> time ? If so, then how ?

Let's say it's better to clean out when you re-run configure. 

If I only change the languages that should be created in the end I 
do not clean out everything. When I decided to use 
--with-system-epm instead of --with-epm=internal I do make clean 
out.

Cleaning the sources is done with 

damke clean 

in the root directory of your building folder. 

E.g. if you use build --all in instsetoo_native you have to go up 
one directory and type dmake clean.

> If a build goes wrong, is it best to clean it out with a make clean,
> before starting again ?

Yes. At least delete the unxmacxi.pro in the module folder. 
 
>> Building mozilla from source requires GTK-development and other libraries
>> like glib. Those in turn probably require other tools like pango, ... So
>> when you want to compile mozilla yourself instead of using the precompiled
>> packages, then I suggest using fink or some other package manager
>> to get the prerequisites.
>> But building mozilla more than once (to create prebuilt mozilla 
>> packages) does
>> not make much sense, since it only wastes time.. But as there 
>> are precompiled
>> mozilla packages already, you could of course just download those..
>>   
> 
> Well I downloaded the binaries, and put them in the download folder of
> the moz directory, but then the config command complained that it
> couldn't find the moz libraries and that I needed to download the
> tarball sources !!!

The download folder is the wrong folder. It's moz/zipped. Just 
checked it on the wiki build instructions and they state it's 
moz/zipped for pre-compiled Mozilla packages. 

> It's a good job I'm used to building other stuff on FreeBSD, else I'd
> have lost patience by now :-))

The first time is most likely the hardest time :-). I needed about 
three days up to a week until configure wouldn't stop with an error 
when I wrote the build instructions for SRC680. A lot changed since 
1.1.x and there were only me, Eric Bachard and some other brave 
ones who made SRC680 ready for Mac OS X and while updated build 
instructions for other OS were available nobody had taken care to 
do so for Mac OS X. And once I had them for SRC680 I changed them 
on a daily base :-) First I fixed all my typos, then what I forgot 
etc. An with every thirty Milestones or so I complete overhaul 
needed to be done. 

Eric

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