On Wed, 03 May 2017 13:02:14 +0200 Stephen Berman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 May 2017 18:02:55 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm sure that at one time (when gtk3 was first usable) we noted that >> both gtk2 AND gtk3 were needed. Not sure why that dropped out - >> maybe it was me - but the error message above is conclusive. If it >> was my fault that got removed: Sorry. > > No big deal, and thanks for confirming. > >> There are many things which still need gtk2. > > That's fine; I'm just trying to build only what I need. > >>> I note that after this failure, since I needed Firefox to pursue my >>> normal workflow using LFS, I downloaded the firefox-52.0.2 binary >>> package from the Mozilla website and have installed and been using it >>> without serious problems, although my LFS does not have GTK+2 (however, >>> the directory of the binary package includes a subdirectory gtk2 >>> containing libmozgtk.so). >>> >> >> I use the binary on my netbook, because recompiling there took a >> whole day last time I tried it - everything is linked in. > > Yeah, the estimated build time of "14 SBU (with parallelism=4 on a > recent intel i7, much longer on lesser CPUs)" is a bit intimidating; > this is a rather old single-core machine, and the GCC test suite took > 583 minutes... > >> But ff-51 has vulnerabilities. I normally point people to the >> development book, but I should add that there may be breakage from >> time to time. >> >> For the future, if you install gtk2 you should be able to build >> 52.1.0esr - moving to ff53 and later requires rustc. > > For the time being I have to stay below 53 anyway, since it appears not > to support my card reader, unlike 52.1 (on another machine). FTR, after building and installing GTK+2 I succeeded in building firefox-52.1.0esr (took a mere 311 minutes ;-), and my card reader works with it too. Steve Berman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
