Firefox 1.5 [installation problems -- x86-64 issues?]

[Jonathan Berry]

On 12/19/05, Patrick <fedora at puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 16:11 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> [snip]
> > I have downloaded the version of firefox available from www.nrpms.net,
> > and am attempting to install it.  An initial installation attempt
> > produces errors:
> [snip]
> >
> > Any ideas what's going on?
>
> It seems that who made the rpm did not disable cairo and pango which are
> not present on FC4. I just got the firefox-1.5 srpm from rawhide,
> removed cairo and pango in the config file, in the specfile I removed
> the cairo and pango (Build)Requires and changed the nspr and nss stuff
> into mozilla-nspr and mozilla-nss with the proper versions. Rebuild,
> install and enjoy. I tried rebuilding on x86_64 but that failed so I

Huh.  Rebuilding on x86_64 worked for me.  I believe I followed the
same procedure as you describe.  Sounds about the same, at least, but
I probably would not notice any slight differences as it was a while
ago.

> built it on an x86 box (32 bit) and installed it on my x86_64. The
> upside is that you can use java, flash etc. which don't work on 64 bit
> versions of firefox.

Yes, that is the plus side to a 32-bit build, which should be possible
to do on the x86_64 system as well.  I suspect there is not much
performance penalty for web browsing : ).

Jonathan