RE : RE : [gnome-slackware]Compiling Gnome on Slackware

["Nicolas Laplante" <nicolas laplante sympatico ca>]

To build Mozilla 0.9.8, I downloaded the latest Mozilla sources and
followed the instructions on "how to build your own Mozilla distribution
from sources (look at http://www.mozilla.org/build/distribution.html). I
then untarred the resulting archive into
/tmp/packages/build/opt/gnome/mozilla and made a Slackware package out
of it. To get the devel stuff, I had to package the include files and
libs from the source tree. 

But now I wonder why Mozilla should be run as root first... If not, then
it segfaults whenever a normal user tries to start it.

-----Message d'origine-----
De : gnome-slackware-admin gnome org
[mailto:gnome-slackware-admin gnome org] De la part de Boris Kaplun
Envoyé : 5 mars, 2002 15:09
À : gnome-slackware gnome org
Objet : Re: RE : [gnome-slackware]Compiling Gnome on Slackware


----- Original Message -----
From: "fflewddur" <fflewddur dropline net>
To: <gnome-slackware gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: RE : [gnome-slackware]Compiling Gnome on Slackware


> On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 18:16, Nicolas Laplante wrote:
> > - Watch out for shared libraries like libxml/libxslt, I guess they
> > should be
> > installed somewhere else.
>
> not true.  these both belong in /opt/gnome.
>

That's what I did, however I saw them included with KDE that's where my
doubts originate.

> > - I couldn't (actually didn't:)) figure out the way Mozilla was
> > originally
> > built in Slackware, so I just put it into /usr/local/mozilla, don't
know
> > if
> > it's wrong or not.
>
> it shouldn't hurt, but make sure you've removed the original mozilla
> package.  if you want to build it just like slackware does, get the
rpm
> spec file & co from the sources cd and use the build script to build
the
> rpms.  you can either install it via rpm or, like me, comment out the
> line in the spec file which deletes the build directory
> "/var/tmp/mozilla-root" and just type "cp -r /var/tmp/mozilla-root/opt
> /" to overwrite your old mozilla with the new one.
>

Eventually I uninstalled the original mozilla package and compiled my
just
as I said.
I just don't get what rpms are you talking about? Why should I build
one?

Boris

> > I want to point out that I did this not for the sake of upgrade,
just
> > wanted
> > to take a look at Evolution which  always depends on the most
current
> > GNOME
> > libraries.
> >
> > It would certainly be nice to see latest GNOME stuff in
> > Slackware-Current.
>
> agreed :)
>
> Todd
>


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