Re: 2.9.4.1 : mozilla cannot be built

["Olivier Lecarme" <ol olecarme homelinux net>]

> > In my attempts to have totem working, I tried a make paranoid-install in
> > bootstrap.

> You really should not do that. Building bootstrap/libiconv on Linux
> systems can cause a lot of trouble for packages being built later...
> 
> The section "An IMPORTANT note about bootstrap" in the README is there
> for a reason. Especially this part:
> 
>   'Unless you know you need something in bootstrap/, you don't!'

I needed something in bootstrap/, i.e. freetype. After I installed it,
Gimp began to work, which it didn't before, because of the freetype
version. Thus I decided to try installing everything in bootstrap/, in
order to have totem working, as explained before.

> > Here is the result for firefox, when trying to build mozilla:
[...]
> > Dans le fichier inclus à partir de /root/garnome/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h:41,

> Please use an English locale for building, when posting error messages
> to the list...

Was it really impossible to understand? I'm sorry, but English is not
my mother tongue.

> And btw, it isn't recommended to build Garnome as root, especially the
> Unstable tree.

Somebody, maybe you, already told me, but with no more explanations.
Since the garnome hierarchy is completely separated from the normal
hierarchy, where is the problem?

> >           à partir de nsDeviceContextGTK.cpp:78:
> > /root/garnome/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:20:2: #error "`ft2build.h' hasn't been included yet!"
> > /root/garnome/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:21:2: #error "Please always use macros to include FreeType header files."
> > /root/garnome/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:22:2: #error "Example:"
> > /root/garnome/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:23:2: #error "  #include <ft2build.h>"
> > /root/garnome/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:24:2: #error "  #include FT_FREETYPE_H"

> Is this a SuSE 9.x system? Seems to be issues with your freetype or Xft.
> Did you build them from bootstrap?

It's a Debian Sid (i.e. unstable; I love unstability). After this error,
I did install Xft from bootstrap/, and voilà (sorry for my French),
mozilla and firefox compiled OK!

Moreover, I finished installing everything from bootstrap/, including
libiconv, then compiled again Totem, and after that it is working!

Thus, installing things from bootstrap/ seems very useful indeed...

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			Olivier Lecarme