Andrew Benton wrote these words on 07/31/05 12:11 CST:

> There are some subtle but important differences between using CMMI and make 
> -f client.mk
> make -f client.mk allows you to build in a separate obj.dir so you can build 
> firefox,

Actually, the book uses the --disable-installer parameter which is why
the BLFS book method doesn't create this separate dir. Right?


> Also, make -f client.mk runs cvs update before anything else so that the code 
> is up to date.

Is this what we want? Pull from CVS?


> But more importantly, make -f client.mk reads it's configure options from the 
> mozconfig file

And then runs configure and make. If the configure options used
using configure were the same as what was in the mozconfig file, you
get the *same exact* thing.

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Randy

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