From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Questions about building from source tarball
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:26:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50907045.2090502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121030085650.GB7402@waltdnes.org>
On 10/30/2012 01:56 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Several years ago, back in the days of Mozilla 0.9x and Phoenix, I
> used to build Mozilla and/or Pheonix from the source tarball.
Me too :) Every morning I'd pull from their source repo and build my own
and then file bug reports (there were thousands of bugs to report) until
I got tired of adding to the mile-high stack of other ignored bug reports
and quit. Amazing how much I've forgotten since then :(
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Configuring_Build_Options
About halfway down that webpage I spotted this line, and it rang a bell:
ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2
(I think I recall adding CFLAGS to that line, but it's pretty fuzzy now.
And you would probably want to set this to $HOME, as you mentioned:
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
You can also add mk_add_options="-j4" and similar stuff to .mozconfig
if you want.
You can try entering 'about:buildconfig' in firefox or seamonkey to see
what sort of stuff the mozilla devs use to build their own binaries.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-31 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-30 8:56 [gentoo-user] [OT] Questions about building from source tarball Walter Dnes
2012-10-30 17:24 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-10-31 0:26 ` walt [this message]
2012-11-01 0:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2012-11-02 3:33 ` David Relson
2012-11-02 9:14 ` Neil Bothwick
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