On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:14:36 +0100
Landry Breuil <lan...@rhaalovely.net> wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
> after countless hours of hacking & building, i finally have a somewhat
> working port of the last beta of firefox 4. It's running fine here on
> i386 & i lightly tested it on amd64. Of course it doesn't build yet on
> sparc64, didn't try ppc, upstream somewhat dropped official support
> for anything !(i386|amd64), or at least it's not in the first
> priorities. (anyway, openbsd is not an officially supported os..)
>
> notes:
> - most things seem to work fine, heavy js webapps feels better.
> - Didn't try printing, it's probably still crashing.
> - ipc/plugin sandboxing.. i don't know if it's useful, as apparently
> it's useful only for binary plugins (flash/etc) which we don't have.
> - port installs everything in lib/firefox-${VERSION}, that's what
> upstream and other oses do. Stop the usr/local/mozilla-firefox
> crazyness, and use the make install target upstream provides. I'd like
> to do the same for other mozilla ports.
> - i have to recheck if the xpm window icon hack is still needed
> - test the build with systemwide cairo, should be okay as iirc they
> bumped the internal version to 1.10.
> - once systemwide sqlite is updated, try to use it with the #pragma hack
> for secure_delete (and unlock-notify..)
> - i didn't test java plugin compatibility, i doubt it'll work as it
> already doesnt work with 3.6.
> - xulrunner 2.0 needs to be polished/finished too
> - it is intended to replace mozilla-firefox-3.6.x, so pkg_delete it
> first. Backup your ~/.mozilla, or create a new profile for it.
> - when it gets out of betas/rc, i'd like to avoid importing it into
> www/firefox4 but rather update www/mozilla-firefox to this version.
> we already have two versions of firefox in the portstree.. and it's a
> mess to handle
> - sparc64 & ppc support needs to be worked on
> - various things i forgot.
>
> Please test in various use cases. If it crashes where 3.6 didn't crash
> before, build it with debug FLAVOR and try to report a useful trace
> _upstream_ (as in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org, i wont handle everything)
>
> get the port in my git repo (you'll need a -current portstree ofc, and
> probably bumped ulimit -d if building as user) :
>
> cd /usr/ports/mystuff/www/
> git clone -b firefox-4 http://rhaalovely.net/git/mozilla-firefox/
> cd mozilla-firefox && make install clean
Build and install OK.
I tested it with few sites, it's OK.
I'll use it in the next days instead of Midori to test ;).
> or try those packages (built against somewhat -current, don't come crying
> if it doesn't install on your box due to dependencies not matching) :
>
> http://rhaalovely.net/stuff/i386/mozilla-firefox-4.0b7.tgz
> http://rhaalovely.net/stuff/amd64/mozilla-firefox-4.0b7.tgz
>
> Landry
Thanks,
Remi.
