On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:27:23 -0500 (CDT) al...@verizon.net wrote: > "ASUS P5E-VM HDMI" with Intel G35/ICH9R. > Intel Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz, 4GB > (B)LFS i686-pc-linux-gnu 2.6.37.3, Xorg-7.6 > glib-2.28.3, gtk+-3.0.3, sqlite-3.7.5, etc. > > To Whom It May Concern: > > On a dare, I decided to install the freshly released Firefox 4.0. > It was also on a "squeeze" - the 3.6.14 and 3.6.15 failed me miserably: > I had lost my beloved back and forward arrows of the navigation buttons > (see Bug 640850). I was also beyond a GTK+-2/3 version where I may > have "fixed" the problem by going back to 3.6.13. > You can fix the back and forward arrows by setting a gtk theme
> The highlights of the successful installation are in the following. > If one soul is helped by them, my sacrifice wouldn't've been in vain. > > PUNCHES by Firefox > 1. Needs nspr >= 4.8.7 > 2. Needs nss >= 3.12.9 No it doesn't. I don't install nspr or nss and current firefox compiles fine for me. > 3. Needs libpng _with_ "apng" > 4. Needs cairo _with_ "tee" > > COUNTER PUNCHES by me (keyed to above) > 1. Installed nspr-4.8.7 (latest) > 2. Installed nss-3.12.9 (latest) > 3. This left me reeling. > BLFS has libpng-1.2.44. > The latest version ("on the street") is 1.5.1 > Installed 1.5.1 but, unfortunately the 1.2.44 patch > for "apng" doesn't work on 1.5.1. > In desperation, I commented out the > "ac_add_options --with-system-png" line > and damn the torpedoes. Did you not try using google? http://sourceforge.net/projects/apng/files/libpng/libpng15/ > 4. Re-built cairo-1.10.2 with > "--enable-tee". > > Here, you get an unsettling message after the configure, > > << The tee surface backend feature is still under active development > and is included in this release only as a preview. > It does NOT fully work yet and incompatible changes may yet be made > to tee surface backend specific API. >> > > but nobody expects Firefox-4.0 to be for the faint of heart. You'll live. Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page