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From: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@××××××.ru>
To: "gentoo-alt@l.g.o" <gentoo-alt@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] how to compile firefox on Mac Os X 10.8
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:06:59
Message-Id: 402771346314814@web7f.yandex.ru
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] how to compile firefox on Mac Os X 10.8 by junqihu
1 30.08.2012, 01:55, "junqihu" <junqihu@××.com>:
2 > Hi, all!
3 >
4 > I'm a newbie on using Mac OS X and gentoo prefix. Hence, I have many problems arised in using them to resolve. One of them šis how to compile firefox by gentoo prefix, although I know šthat there is a package named firefox for mac on mozilla's project page.
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6 Are you sure you need to build firefox? There are official binaries for your system [1].
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8 > The first question, I face to, is whether USE flag X should be select, because X11 for mac have been separated from Mac OS X šsince Mountain Lion.
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10 You should install X from [2]. It's the same X.org fork which was shipped as part of Mac OS X since 10.5
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12 [1] http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
13 [2] http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
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15 --
16 Regards,
17 Konstantin

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Re: [gentoo-alt] how to compile firefox on Mac Os X 10.8 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>