How to build a .deb of the Firefox CVS trunk

donnied · 11-03-2008, 06:39 AM

I use CVS and not Mercurial because I don't want to add to but rather only build the latest CSV versions.

First get the code:

Code:

mkdir cvs 
cd cvs
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -r HEAD mozilla/client.mk

You will need a .mozconfig file in your home directory which will handle all the configure options.

Code:

ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize

ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --enable-libxul

Then to get the source code to build:

Code:

make -f client.mk checkout

Then you'll build

Code:

make -f client.mk build

And to create your .deb at this point you'll just:

Code:

checkinstall -D make install

Be sure to enter a version number and change anything you see fitting. Without a version number the build will fail.

Now you have a freshly compiled Firefox.

assuming you named the package Firefox, you'll remove it with:

Code:

dpkg -r firefox

This worked fine for me but I need to know how to get it to play nicely with Flash and how to add the search bar for Debian's repositories.