Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:43:41 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A mozilla lite port. Message-ID: <3C6A354D.43BA66AD@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020213002751.A47581@shale.csir.co.za>
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Jeremy Lea wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been playing a bit with a mozilla-lite port, which would basically be > to mozilla what netscape-navigator is to netscape-communicator, because I > don't think that most people are using the Mail/News client, or need MathML, > or Chatzilla SVG etc. However, I want to keep building these so we can test > them on FreeBSD. > > While doing this I'v come across a bunch of kruft in the port, and would > like to do a tidy up. There is also a bugzilla bug (112987) to get our > patches back into the main tree. I notice that the NSPR one's made 0.9.8, > but I still need to finalise the other patches. > > Attached is a patch to make a mozilla-lite port. I'm planning on making a > mozilla lite port slaved to the mozilla port though, like mozilla-embedded. > This is just for testing, so I can compare to the standard mozilla port. > > One handy feature, which I might polish for bsd.port.mk is a tar-exclude > list, which makes the extraction (even with DIRPREF) much faster. > > The big changes are in revising the CONFIGURE_ARGS to match reality and > putting CFLAGS back where they belong. I've actually tested the > mozilla-lite port up to -O6 on -CURRENT, and it seems to be fine, although I > need to do some playing with the options. I'd compile the mozilla-lite port > with some optimisation purely because I think it needs to be faster rather > than more stable... > > What do people think? In general looks fine to me, however I'm little concerned about the fact that your patch removes all CXX, CFLAGS and -pthread tweaks. Have you verifyed that -D_THREAD_SAFE/-pthread is inserted where appropriate and that system CXX and CFLAGS are respected everywhere? -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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