Hi,
After getting frustrated with running Firefox 31.3.0 crashing on
OpenIndiana if it was left running for any length of time.
I did start the process of building Firefox v38.0.1. As a result of this
I found a couple of things when attempting to do this, the pulseaudio
library was not installed an easy fix if you know its there. The
question should be "Should PulseAudio be installed by default on a
desktop install?". I would say yes.
Carrying on with Firefox, I had to work to find a reasonable configure
command, this was after working out the best value for PATH so that the
right version of the GNU applications are called for configure to work
correctly.
CC=gcc PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gnu/lib/pkgconfig"
CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/gnu/include LDFLAGS="-L/opt/gnu/lib -R/opt/gnu/lib
-lsocket -lnsl" ../mozilla-release/configure
--prefix=/opt/firefox-38.0.1 --disable-alsa
Now I got the stage that configure reports the following error.
configure: error: ECMAScript Internationalization API is not yet
supported on this platform
Google is our friend and this presents the following as an option
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/s0XMutjEAR which
basically informs us that the node.js from nodejs.org provides
ECMAScript Internationalization API 1.0 support. The current release of
node.js is v0.12.4 which is available as solaris x86 and x64 binaries. I
tried to build the latest myself and hit a dependency.
Since going through the process of building all VLC's dependencies and
then failing to build VLC itself was very annoying. However VLC failed
because of strerror_l() function expected in the string.h include file.
It is the dependencies that are problem when building applications
because many dependency libraries are not there and have to built first.
Surely anyone wanting to build Firefox should find it a simple matter of
downloading the source code, unpacking, running configure and then gmake.
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