On 2008-09-21 at 10:37:56 [+0200], Fredrik Ekdahl <fekdahl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > To make gcc 4 builds more usable an easily accessible browser is really > necessary. As can be seen in the screenshot below, Firefox can be built > for gcc 4 Haiku. > http://dustin.howett.net/haiku/aa1_1.png > > There is also a guide on how to cross-compile Firefox for Haiku here: > http://wiki.bebits.com/page/CrosscompilingFirefox > > Though there seems to be two dependencies missing, quoting from the > article: "We need glib and libIDL for Haiku. Unfortunatly glib was hard > to crosscompile so I will not discuss it here. Hopefully someone will > provide proper built versions." > > It would be nice if not everyone who wants Firefox for gcc 4 built Haiku > needs to build it themselves, going through a seemingly cumbersome > procedure. As there seems to be some people out there who already have > it built, could you make it available as an "optional package", like the > gcc 2 version? Is there any problem with using the gcc 2 Firefox with a gcc4/gcc2 hybrid Haiku? At least according to the optional package definition it can be installed. CU, Ingo