DJ Lucas wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote:
You shouldn't go filing bugs if it's the BLFS build process that's
broken. I haven't had this problem for more than a year, but then I
don't build Firefox the BLFS way, I do it the Mozilla way
http://www.mozilla.org/build/configure-build.html
Depends on whether or not the BLFS build process is broken, judging from
below it still looks like it's a moz bug. It seems the install target
is not doing something that it should be doing. Unless of course if
it's depreciated and not supposed to be used. In that case I'm sure
moz-dev would appreciate a patch to remove it so as not to get false bug
reports. But somebody needs to do some testing to figure out what is
different. An identical install vs packaged build should do the trick.
I'll dig into it a little later this week, but if you or Archaic (or
anybody else that used the packaged build) still happen to have your
build tree laying around this will be easy enough to test if you'd like
to assist.
I've done a bit more testing with this. Making a packaged build with the
firefox-1.0.4 source results in a firefox that will (if you already have it
open) open a new url in the current window without launching the profile
manager. It doesn't open a new window or tab though so you lose the page you
were looking at. If I make install with a firefox-1.0.4 build it runs but when
I try to launch a second instance (e.g. from a link in an email) I get the
dreaded profile manager. So make install is definitely broken on the 1.0.4
branch. However, if I do make install from a current trunk build it works
perfectly. It opens a second instance in a new tab or window, just like it
should. I had a look around http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ earlier and couldn't
see a bug that matched. I wondered about filing a new bug but couldn't be
bothered. The Firefox 1.0.4 branch was cut from the trunk just after
firefox-0.8, it's really old code. The current trunk works, why file a bug
against an old br
anch?
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