Re: Should GARNOME always build Mozilla?

[Paul Drain <pd cipherfunk org>]

Hey Jeff,

> issues, etc). Most platforms now have a sane default gcc, and a reasonable
> version of Mozilla (1.4), so it's a bit of a waste of time for the common
> case.

Red Hat 9 doesn't though, it's still shipping 1.2.1 out of the box --
and rebuilding source RPMs from Rawhide seem to make RPM crash, leaving
a whole bunch of stale locks everywhere.

A possible solution that recently got posted to RH bugzilla (see:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101062) is to
upgrade to RPM 4.2 manually from RPM.org, but how many users are going
to do that __before__ complaining to you (or the list) that any attempt
to upgrade Mozilla stalls their box? -- especially if you listed
mozilla-dev in the GARNOME build depends :)

> A quick and easy fix for this is to remove the dependency on the mozilla
> garball, and default to building against your distro Mozilla. The garball
> can stay for people who want to use it.

Another option would be to install ccache and uncomment the relevant
options in gar.conf, especially since ccache is available as a package
for most platforms that have a sane compiler already.

Heck, you could even add ccache to bootstrap/ :)

Regards,

Paul