Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 16:35:12 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou <leo@talcom.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mozilla+lesstif works Message-ID: <19980405163512.24668@supersex.com>
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I thought I'd share my experience building Mozilla with lesstif. I built it on a 2.2.6-STABLE/lesstif-current system, P100, 32MB. First thing is to make sure you have plenty of free disk space. I've heard the debug build expands to 2 or 4 hundred MB. If you dont have that kind of space handy gmake will eventually spit back a weird error that doesnt necessarily have anything to do with the actual sources. Do what I did and set BUILD_OPT=1 in your environment. This will build without debugging info. All this is documented in the README, incidentally. lesstif ======= I built lesstif-current instead of lesstif-0.83. I imagine mozilla is going to be responsible for daily diffs against the lesstif code so I decided it would be best to bookmark lesstif.org and start with a clean code base. I downloaded the lesstif-0.83 port. In the Makefile I changed DISTNAME to lesstif-current and added --enable-static to the CONFIGURE_ARGS line. Mozilla will *not* build if it cannot find libXm.a patch-ai and PLIST need to be edited. One or two additional manpages are built and need to be installed. Sorry, I did all this in the spirit of random hackery without bothering to make diffs. In any case, you can safely delete patch-ai and ignore PLIST since it only affects the location and installation of one or two man pages. Nuke the files directory because obviously the MD5 signature of lesstif-0.83 and lesstif-current will differ. make make install worked for me. mozilla ======= Set up your environment as documented in the README. I used eivind's port (URL somebody? This is so embarassing) and applied the mozilla (not lesstif) patches found at ftp://165.247.176.84/pub/mozilla/. gmake (The README documents gmake -k but gmake is probably a better idea unless you tee the output somewhere else and dont mind uselessly building beyond any errors.) Runs better than I expected :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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