[haiku-development] Re: Firefox for gcc 4 builds

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:27:25 +0200

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

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