Mozilla 1.7 launch problem

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Jun 25 15:06:51 UTC 2004


Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
> I have just compiled Mozilla 1.7 and find that it may no longer
> be launched from the icon in the panel at the bottom of the
> screen.
> 
> I am using Fedora Core 1.
> 
> The machine just waits for a while and then the whole thing
> just gives up.
> 
> I had no such problem with the 1.6 that I built, with the same
> configuration settings.
> 
> I can start it with no problem at all by typing 'mozilla &' in
> an xterm window.
> 
> To configure the build I used:
> 
> ./configure  \
>     --prefix=/usr  \
>     --enable-optimize='-O2 -march=pentium4' \
>     --disable-debug  \
>     --enable-pie  \
>     --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7  \
>     --disable-strip-libs  \
>     --disable-tests  \
>     --enable-xinerama  \
>     --enable-nspr-autoconf  \
>     --enable-extensions=default,irc  \
>     --without-mng  \
>     --enable-crypto  \
>     --disable-xprint  \
>     --without-system-nspr  \
>     --with-system-zlib  \
>     --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2  \
>     --enable-xft  \
>     --mandir=/usr/share/man
> 
> gcc -3.4.0
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Michael Ben-Gershon
> mybg at netvision.net.il
> 
> 

My mozilla icon on the bar points to "htmlview", not mozilla.

And /usr/bin/htmlview points to /usr/bin/mozilla.

It may be that your "mozilla" command isn't in /usr/bin


-- 
Robin Laing





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