On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:27 PM, <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.
>
> 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
> 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.
> 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.
>
> ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
>
> - The build ('make -f client.mk build') takes about 20 min.
> On versions 3.6.x, about 14 min.
>
> - The install ('make -f client.mk install') takes seconds.
>
> Best regards,
> -- Alex
> --------------------------------------------------------
> '.mozconfig' used:
>
> . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
> mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/../firefox-build
> mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4"
> ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
> ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
> ac_add_options --disable-auto-deps
> ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter
> ac_add_options --disable-dbm
> ac_add_options --disable-gnomevfs
> ac_add_options --disable-installer
> ac_add_options --disable-tests
> ac_add_options --disable-updater
> ac_add_options --enable-cpp-rtti
> ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
> ac_add_options --enable-image-decoders=all
> ac_add_options --enable-image-encoders=all
> ac_add_options --enable-jemalloc
> ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
> ac_add_options --enable-optimize
> ac_add_options --enable-places
> ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing
> ac_add_options --enable-strip
> ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
> ac_add_options --enable-system-lcms
> ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite
> ac_add_options --enable-valgrind
> ac_add_options --enable-libxul
> ac_add_options --with-java-bin-path=/opt/jdk/bin
> ac_add_options --with-java-include-path=/opt/jdk/include
> ac_add_options --with-qtdir=/opt/qt
> ac_add_options --with-system-bz2
> ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg
> ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
> ac_add_options --with-system-nss
> # ac_add_options --with-system-png
> ac_add_options --with-system-zlib
> ac_add_options --with-x
>
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Been trying to get firefox 4 working on my system since beta 9, but it
never starts. (firefox -jsconsole does give me the error console, but
that's it). Congradulations.
--
Nathan Coulson (conathan)
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