On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 01:56:25AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > [1.] That was probably a move from 2.6 to 2.7. These days, I cannot > build firefox on my old gcc-4.9 systems, so I guess I have now given > up trying to keep my old BLFS systems usable. At least that cuts > down the rebuilds every month ;-) > Well, after writing that I reconsidered my options (dropping back to the current ESR firefox would probably have worked, but only for the current major version). In the end, I used seamonkey (full build, trying to build only the browser needs a different build dir position and then requires (at least) GConf and then pulseaudio - I gave up application=browser at that point). And then I symlinked it as firefox, bacause that is what I normally use. It isn't as nice, e.g. no 'x' on a tab to close it, but for rescuing the current system if that gets trashed it will be good enough. And apart from that, I cannot imagine why I would want to use such an old system.
So, I've now got a working graphical browser in BLFS-7.7 on that box (and yes, its main system is long overdue for upgrading, days away from being a full year old). I'm sure that those firefox-46 problems were probably fixed in gcc-4.9.3. I realise that Paul, who started this thread, thinks 7.7 is as up to date as he needs to go, but I can only speak as I find. Whether I am motivated to keep the 7.7 and 7.6 systems on my "stable" box usable remains to be seen : it has working 7.9 and 7.8, so probably not. ĸen -- I had to walk fifteen miles to school, barefoot in the snow. Uphill both ways. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
