On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote:
[cc'd to BLFS-Dev from BLFS-Support]
Archaic wrote these words on 06/25/05 12:01 CST:
[snip what is already instructions in the book]
make -C browser/installer
cd dist
mv firefox /opt/firefox-${version}
ln -sf /opt/firefox-${version}
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 08/24/05 12:35 CST:
But, I like having multiple browsers so that I can look at different
things on different desktops. Epiphany works with the book's current
instructions, with a different set of instructions the .pc files didn't
get installed (and they
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I will play with developing a wrapper script to put in /usr/bin so
that it calls /opt/firefox/firefox appropriately (depending
on if it is called with a URL or new-tab URL.
I suggest Archaic's method of building Firefox be implemented into
BLFS immediately. The only
Randy McMurchy wrote:
No, what we've always done in the past is create a symlink in
/usr/bin:
ln -sfv /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin
Ah, OK. Guess I never paid attention to what you had been doing. That
would indeed be simpler.
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
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Please folks, comment on this as I would like to implement immediately.
We'd really need a compelling reason why we don't change the existing
instructions to use Archaic's method.
I don't have time this week or next (family visiting) to investigate,
but I trust you
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Original Message
Subject: Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:47:44 -0500
From: Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:30 CST:
The issue of profile locking when trying
Damn, I did it twice in a row! (wrong list before)
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From: Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Aug 24, 2005 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2
To: BLFS Support List blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I'm now leaning to simply doing a sed on the installed
/usr/bin/firefox after using the current book instructions. This
makes the profile locking issue disappear.
Randy,
Look at the file
mozilla/browser/app/mozilla.in
This is the
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:54 CST:
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:30 CST:
The issue of profile locking when trying to open a URL in an already
running Firefox received some attention on blfs-support. Kevin
Somervill went through the run-mozilla.sh script
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/24/05 16:25 CST:
Surely the choice is between /opt and /usr/local? I vote for /usr/local. It'd
be good to try and keep executable scripts and binaries out of /usr/lib
Actually, I'm now leaning to simply doing a sed on the installed
/usr/bin/firefox after
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan, special thanks to you for bringing up the old archive message
where this fix was originally posted. Kudos, dude.
No problem. The very special thanks really goes to Kevin Somervill
for actually going through the firefox (mozilla) script
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