firefox 32bit still statically linked?
(Sorry if this emerges as a double posting, the post disappeared on my side...)
According to http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~dugan/slackware-fonts/index.html: Quote:
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ldd /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox-bin | grep free |
ls -l /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.3/lib*
.. will show what's statically linked .. and their size .. .. where the main lib 'libxul.so' is 14 MB. But firefox also dynamically links to a lot of libraries, that just by default are present on most *nix : ldd /usr/lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox-bin ..... |
it may be partially statically linked? Maybe the mozilla libs themselves? try comparing the files in /lib and /lib64 of the two slackware packages.
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Suffice to say, it is still necessary to recompile the 32-bit Firefox in order to get it to respect your subpixel rendering settings. I just checked.
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That is, how did you find out that the ordinary firefox doesn't follow your sub-pixel settings? |
With the custom Freetype, Fontconfig and Cairo packages, you can tell the difference between the font rendering in the stock and rebuilt versions of Firefox just by looking at the menu bars.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...page/stock.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...recompiled.png I don't think it makes a difference if you're using the stock Freetype, Fontconfig and Cairo. |
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Why don't you just use the slackware64 firefox build to make a dynamically linked firefox package? Also I'm not positive but isn't cairo the problem library with statically linked firefox?
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