[gentoo-dev] Notes on Mozilla

[Martin Schlemmer]

Hi

I have been doing most of the Mozilla changes updates for
the last while (with help from Hallski).  This means that
I have compile mozilla too many times for one person ;-)

To get to the point, I have tested Mozilla with the GTK+,
QT and XLIB toolkits.  GTK+ is stable as a rock, where
QT is pretty flaky, and XLIB seems to be still in heavy
development (could be wrong).  Now, to determine which should
be used, can get tricky.

Thus, with gtk+ not a heavy depend, I released mozilla-0.9.6-r4, which
only support gtk+.  This should
creat a stable build that is easier to support (wont need
to rebuild it many times to test for all the toolkits 
(2 hours + here .. ).  It will also ensure that the user
will not get mozilla with QT or even XLIB and have it crash
all the time, or not even start.

If anybody have objections to this, consider having a stable
build for all with yourself uncommenting a few lines, or other
people having lots of problems.  If needed, I will revert the
changes.

Then on a side note:  During testing, etc, I noted a few things:

  1) Even though it should be ok to not unmerge the old
     version of a app, I got best results when i FIRST
     unmerged the old version of mozilla; cleaned out
     /usr/lib/mozilla, and THEN merged the new version.

  2) Mozilla is a big beast, and this very sensitive for
     compile flags (CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS).  One that really cause
     problems, is -fomit-frame-pointer, I took care of in the
     ebuild.  But, as there is so many combinations, if you
     have problems, try the default CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS for the
     build (-march=... -O3 -pipe).

Anyhow, feedback will be appreciated, and enjoy the new
NSS/SSL support in mozilla/evolution :)  (NOTE: mozilla 
should be build with 'ssl' in USE ... )


Greetings,

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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa