On 10/30/2012 01:56 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Several years ago, back in the days of Mozilla 0.9x and Phoenix, I used to build Mozilla and/or Pheonix from the source tarball.
Me too :) Every morning I'd pull from their source repo and build my own and then file bug reports (there were thousands of bugs to report) until I got tired of adding to the mile-high stack of other ignored bug reports and quit. Amazing how much I've forgotten since then :( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Configuring_Build_Options About halfway down that webpage I spotted this line, and it rang a bell: ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2 (I think I recall adding CFLAGS to that line, but it's pretty fuzzy now. And you would probably want to set this to $HOME, as you mentioned: ac_add_options --prefix=/usr You can also add mk_add_options="-j4" and similar stuff to .mozconfig if you want. You can try entering 'about:buildconfig' in firefox or seamonkey to see what sort of stuff the mozilla devs use to build their own binaries.
