Building FireFox 1.5 SRPMs on FC4...

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:50 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On 11/30/05, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 11/30/2005 11:31 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Just wondering, I assume that FF 1.5 RPMs will be making their way into
> > > rawhide in the next couple of days.
> > > What are the chances of building their SRPMs on FC4? (x86-64 to be
> > > exact)
> > > Should I just give up and build the vanilla source package?
> > >
> > Once the s390(x) builds finish, it should hit rawhide.  I'd imagine you
> > should be able to build it on FC4 without issue, but why not try and
> > find out for sure?  :-)
> >
> 
> Almost but not quite. Off the top of my head once you've installed the
> spec file you need to:
> 
> In the spec file you need to change the nspr/nspr-devel to
> mozilla-nspr[-devel] with version of 1.7.10 (it will inc greater vers)
> and remove the cairo dep.
> 
> Then in the firefox-mozconfig remove the lines with system cairo and
> pango. You need to remove the pango because it deps on cairo.
> 
> Once you've done that you should be able to do a rpmbuild -ba
> firefox.spec and then just wait. I've been doing this ever since the
> alphas started to appear in rawhide.
> 
> Pete
> 

Thanks.
I'll give it a try once the rawhide SRPMs hit the servers.

Gilboa