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Old 03-12-2005, 09:40 AM   #31
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Originally posted by jong357
Nice.... I never keep up with the changelog. I'm sure Pats script is very different from mine. I'll have to look at it.
yeah, pat decided to use the official binaries, so the slackware firefox build script doesn't do any compiling...

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# This is not a source build script. Rather, it builds a Slackware
# package from the official binary tarball available from mozilla.org.
# Using the official binaries seems like the most direct way to satify
# the Mozilla project's concerns about quality control (and thus to
# provide the most quality-certified package possible), and therefore
# be able to use the official trademarks and logos.
#
# Thanks to the folks at the Mozilla Foundation for permission to
# distribute this, and for all the great work! :-)
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...fox.SlackBuild
 
Old 03-12-2005, 09:48 AM   #32
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Yea, I just saw that. Funny... I think I'll use my own script actually. I've been doing his 'build script' for over a year and decided it was kind of lame. Oh well.....
 
Old 03-12-2005, 09:52 AM   #33
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even more interesting is that it is a i686 package. perhaps pat is thinking of increasing the arch of all X packages to i686 as I doubt anyone is still using X with something less than a pentium 2. anyway, it wont give any big perfomance effect in the end but it will make the packages a bit smaller at least.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 10:04 AM   #34
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I've been doing his 'build script' for over a year and decided it was kind of lame.
what do you mean?? what build script?

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Old 03-12-2005, 10:04 AM   #35
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Yea, the 'official' binaries were compiled with i686/xft/gtk so thats what the slak-pak is going to be. Makes me kind of wonder if Pat is truely concerned with "to satify the Mozilla project's concerns about quality control (and thus to provide the most quality-certified package possible)" or if he just didn't want 2 more "big" packages to maintain..... Not a big deal to me. I'll just keep using my script. Works quite nicely. I just have this ideal about having all packages i486 even tho I'm running a Pentium4 3.0ghz HT system....
 
Old 03-12-2005, 10:07 AM   #36
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what do you mean??
I always downloaded the pre-compiled package straight from firefox/thunderbird. Unpacked it and then rearanged things to make it into a "slak-pak".... That's all he is doing. Same thing I've been doing since version .6 or .7

This build script:

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...fox.SlackBuild

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Old 03-12-2005, 10:07 AM   #37
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Nice.... I never keep up with the changelog. I'm sure Pats script is very different from mine.
Well, he packs the official binaries version. He does not compile it from source The only thing he touches is to add a javascript line to use Thunderbird as default for mailto operation.

SO firefox package can be used by slack10.1 slack10 and maybe users with even older slackware since the official mozilla binaries are compiled with an older glib library.

I tried it in 10.1 and it works great.

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If you look at the date of my question you will realize this was posted _BEFORE_ the change log was updated to include Firefox. Maybe I can read Pat's mind?
TVR
The first thing I did when I upgrated to slack10.1 was to remove netscape and mozilla and install firefox. Maybe I can also read his mind.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 10:14 AM   #38
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I always downloaded the pre-compiled package straight from firefox/thunderbird. Unpacked it and then rearanged things to make it into a "slak-pak".... That's all he is doing. Same thing I've been doing since version .6 or .7
oh, okay... i see what you mean... yeah, that's what i've been doing also (making my own slackpack from the official binaries)...

i think it's nice to build your own firefox, though... ;-)

just curious, are there any noticable differences between a firefox 1.0.1 compiled with your script and the official 1.0.1 binaries?? like, did you add or subtract anything maybe?? just wondering...
 
Old 03-12-2005, 10:14 AM   #39
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Originally posted by chbin
even more interesting is that it is a i686 package. perhaps pat is thinking of increasing the arch of all X packages to i686 as I doubt anyone is still using X with something less than a pentium 2. anyway, it wont give any big perfomance effect in the end but it will make the packages a bit smaller at least.
If he was going to use the official binaries he did not have any other option.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 10:17 AM   #40
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I realize that the i686 package is not built from source in slack, but more the likely kernel 2.6 will be going into slack current to test for the slack 11 release. Hence, pat will have to recompile glibc with the new headers and any package that wants to take advantage of the new interfaces. Hence, i big recompile is coming sooner or later. so since that is a big project might as well bump everything up.
 
Old 03-12-2005, 11:24 AM   #41
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I realize that the i686 package is not built from source in slack, but more the likely kernel 2.6 will be going into slack current to test for the slack 11 release. Hence, pat will have to recompile glibc with the new headers and any package that wants to take advantage of the new interfaces. Hence, i big recompile is coming sooner or later. so since that is a big project might as well bump everything up.
There will be major changes in slackware 11, like dropping 2.4 kernel support, and as you said a big recompile is coming, but i have the filling that the arch will stay i486 and firefox won't be compiled from source.
 
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hi guys! remember this thread? it's been a year already!!!

just wanted to ask you guys a question:

could someone please point me to (or share) a firefox (source) build script which has been designed for and tested with version 1.5.0.1?? thanks!!
 
  


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