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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:10:36PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On Mar 01, neuron [vlmarek AT volny.cz] wrote:
> > > rm -rf ~/.firefox
> > > rm -f ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/compreg.dat
> > > 
> > > lftpget 
> > > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.1/source/firefox-1.0.1-source.tar.bz2
> > > tar -xjvf firefox-1.0.1-source.tar.bz2
> > > cd mozilla
> > > cp browser/config/mozconfig .mozconfig
> > > ./configure --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 # it won't compile without 
> > > these on my box
> > > make
> > > cd dist/bin
> > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. firefox-bin
> > > ==============================
> > > 
> > > This did it, find in page worked.
> > 
> > [ ... ]
> > 
> > Hello, I was working with mozilla for some time, and I have to second
> > that not building according to their rules may lead to problems.
> 
> I have also found that using a similar process for Thunderbird produces a
> build without the overlay issues that plague the current devel build.
> 
> Is there a particular reason for any of the stuff we're doing in our
> Thunderbuild build in devel?  If I don't hear a particular reason to keep
> that stuff I'll probably start over with a more traditional mozilla-style
> build script and see if I can get it working.

I say go ahead, it's completely unusable as it is.  Probably not our 
fault in the end, but bit-rot and poor documentation on their build 
process.

I'll be first in line to test when you give the go.

Seth

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