Build Firefox 2 in Linux

iDog

2006.11.20

Windows XP users: please download directly:

Firefox doesn't work on my FC4 Linux installation due to some lib issues. So I'd like to customize and build a binary targeted to my PC.

• download the tarball of the source code, and expand it to, say, ~/work/install/mozilla
• write a config file: ~/work/install/.mozconfig

. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig

# Options for client.mk.
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-dir

# Options for 'configure' (same as command-line options).
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --disable-static --enable-shared
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-crypto

• export it:

export MOZCONFIG=~/work/install/.mozconfig

• change to the top dir of source code:

cd ~/work/install/mozilla

• build it! Note that you should not run the 'configure' since it may confuse the gmake.

make -f client.mk build

• build a tarball. Note that there is a bug in the Makefile. So fix it first:
  • change dir to ~/work/install/mozilla/obj-dir/browser/installer
  • open Makefile with text editor, comment out line 60-70, and save file (I believe that there is a bug here, so to make things simple, just comment them out!)
  • type 'make' to make the tar ball
• install it

mv ~/work/install/mozilla/obj-dir/dist/firefox-2.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz /opt
cd /opt
tar xvfz firefox-2.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz