source: x/lib/xulrunner.xml@ de53c9be

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  <!ENTITY xulrunner-download-http "http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY xulrunner-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.bz2">
  <!-- md5sum and size should match firefox, but the buildsize and time will differ -->
  <!ENTITY xulrunner-md5sum        "d7c90aed8209beefa74badf02e8eeae1">
  <!ENTITY xulrunner-size          "51 MB">
  <!ENTITY xulrunner-buildsize     "820 MB">
  <!ENTITY xulrunner-time          "20 SBU">
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<sect1 id="xulrunner" xreflabel="Xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="xulrunner.html" ?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="xulrunner">
    <primary sortas="a-Xulrunner">Xulrunner</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Xulrunner</title>

    <para><application>Xulrunner</application> is a runtime environment for XUL
    applications, and forms the major part of the <application>Mozilla</application>
    codebase.  In particular, it provides the gecko engine together with pkgconfig
    files so that applications such as <application>Yelp</application> can find
    and use it.  However, be aware that Gnome applications are transitioning to
    <application>Webkit</application> instead of gecko.</para>

    &lfs67_checked;
    <para>&lfssvn_checked;20101029&lfssvn_checked2;</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&xulrunner-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&xulrunner-download-ftp;"/></para>
        <tip><para>When a new version of <application>Firefox</application> is
        released, sometimes a corresponding new version of
        <application>Xulrunner</application> appears at the same time. At other
        times it appears several days later or not at all. So far in the
        <application>Firefox-3.x</application> series, every new release has
        created xulrunner libraries with a corresponding new version. Whenever
        a separate Xulrunner tarball has been released, it has been bitwise
        identical to the corresponding Firefox tarball. Use the
        <application>Firefox</application> tarball to save downloading this
        large package twice.</para></tip>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &xulrunner-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &xulrunner-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &xulrunner-buildsize; (using
        all dependencies)</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &xulrunner-time; (using all
        dependencies)</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Optional patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-provide_system_nspr_nss-1.patch"/>
        (Required if using the included NSPR and NSS libraries as system versions for
        other packages)</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Xulrunner Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="alsa-lib"/>,
    <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
    <xref linkend="libidl"/>,
    <xref linkend="pango"/>,
    <xref linkend="python"/>, and
    <xref linkend="zip"/></para>

    <para>Note: <application>libjpeg</application> should have been installed
    before <application>GTK+</application> and should exist on your system. If
    for some reason you haven't installed <application>libjpeg</application>,
    you should remove the <option>--with-system-jpeg</option> option from the
    <filename>mozconfig</filename> file created below.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="sqlite"/> (internal sqlite is
    incompatable with existing or future installations)</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="dbus-glib"/>,
    <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
    <xref linkend="curl"/> (only for crash-reporter),
    <xref linkend="gnome-vfs"/> and <xref linkend="libgnomeui"/> (for gnome integration),
    <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
    <xref linkend="libpng"/> (patched for apng support),
    <xref linkend="nss"/> (recommended if you build any other Mozilla.org packages),
    <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
    <xref linkend="unzip"/>,
    <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hunspell/">Hunspell</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink> (only for testing the jemalloc code), and
    <xref linkend="wget"/></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/xulrunner"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Xulrunner</title>

    <para>The configuration of <application>Xulrunner</application> is
    accomplished by creating a <filename>mozconfig</filename> file containing
    the desired configuration options. A default <filename>mozconfig</filename>
    is created below. To see the entire list of available configuration options
    (and an abbreviated description of each one), issue
    <command>./configure --help</command>. You should review the entire file
    and comment or uncomment options as necessary. If you would prefer to
    download the file instead of creating it by typing or cut-and-pasting, you
    can find it at
    <ulink url="&files-anduin;/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;-mozconfig"/>
    (the file must be installed in the root of the source tree, and named
    <filename>mozconfig</filename> or <filename>.mozconfig</filename>).</para>

<screen><?dbfo keep-together="auto"?><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># This file contains the options used in the Xulrunner build. You may
# need to specify additional options for your specific build needs.
# Use the information provided by running './configure --help' to
# help you determine if you need to add any additional options.
# Some additional options can be added by uncommenting the examples
# in this file or adding options by inserting a line containing
# 'ac_add_options --some-option-you-need'.  Be aware that some accepted
# options, such as '--with-system-bz2', do not affect the build.

# Specify that Xulrunner should be built. Note that this line is commented out
# because it is redundant with the next setting.
#ac_add_options --enable-application=xulrunner

# Use the default settings specified in the source tree. The
# --enable-application=xulrunner is set in this file.
. $topsrcdir/xulrunner/config/mozconfig

# Create an object directory and specify to build the package in that
# directory. If desired, modify the location of the object directory
# to a directory inside the source tree by removing '../' from the
# line below.
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/../xulrunner-build

# Specify the installation prefix. If you would prefer Xulrunner installed in a
# different prefix, modify the line below to fit your needs (the system.conf
# configuration file will always be installed to /etc/gre.d).
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr

# Apply a minimal level of optimization (-O).
ac_add_options --enable-optimize

# These options are used so that the Xulrunner binaries are linked to
# the system-installed copies of the specified libraries instead of
# the source tree code which may not be the most recent versions.
# With the exception of libsqlite3, the libraries are statically linked.

# (Options to use system installed libraries)
# Using the shipped version of libsqlite3 has been reported to cause
# problems with other applications which were using sqlite3.
# Only comment this line if you know exactly what you are doing!
ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite

# Comment this only if you want to use whatever patched version of cairo
# is in the shipped mozilla tree, together with the system headers.
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo

# Comment this if you have not installed lcms.
ac_add_options --enable-system-lcms

# Uncomment this if you have installed Hunspell
#ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell

# Uncomment this if you have installed startup-notification
#ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification

# Comment this if you did not build libjpeg before GTK+-2.
ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg

# These two options enable support for building Xulrunner with
# system-installed versions of the Network Security Services (NSS)
# and Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) libraries. Comment them if
# you wish to use the included copies (not recommended).
ac_add_options --with-system-nspr
ac_add_options --with-system-nss

# Comment this if you have not built png with the apng patch.
ac_add_options --with-system-png

# The pthreads option is only used when building nspr
# Uncomment this if you build the included nspr.
#ac_add_options --with-pthreads

# Zlib is included in LFS. Do not comment this line.
ac_add_options --with-system-zlib

# (Options to disable parts of the package)
# This option is used to disable the a11y support in the Xulrunner
# binaries. Comment out this option if you require a11y support.
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility

# Uncomment this if you did not build cURL.
#ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter

# Comment this if you have built DBus-Glib.
ac_add_options --disable-dbus

# Comment this if you have Gnome-VFS and libgnomeui, and wish to
# integrate Xulrunner into your Gnome desktop.
ac_add_options --disable-gnomevfs

# Comment this if you have wireless-tools installed and wish to use the new
# Necko WiFi scanning.
ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi

# Comment this if you have installed libnotify.
ac_add_options --disable-libnotify

# This option is added so that the Mozilla Installer program is not
# built or installed. The program is not required for a BLFS
# installation of Xulrunner.
ac_add_options --disable-installer

# If you enable javaxpcom, you must have a java compiler installed.
ac_add_options --disable-javaxpcom

# This option is added so that test libraries and programs are not
# built. These would only be required for debugging purposes.
ac_add_options --disable-tests

# Disable the updater, which is not appropriate if you build from source.
ac_add_options --disable-updater

# (options to add extra parts of the package)
# This option causes the installed Firefox binaries to have the official
# Firefox name embedded in them. Due to license restrictions, you
# may not distribute binaries created using this option.  It also
# means you get a popup EULA when you first run a Xulrunner Gecko engined
# application.
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding

# Use the anti-phishing measures (a blacklist of sites).
ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing

# This option is used so that the debugging symbols are removed from
# the installed binaries during the installation process. Comment out
# this option if you may have a need to retain the debugging symbols
# in the installed binaries (the resulting binaries will be about 7MB
# bigger).
ac_add_options --enable-strip

# Uncomment this option if you desire support for dual-monitor
# display using the X-Window Xinerama libraries.
#ac_add_options --enable-xinerama

# This option identifies the default binary directory of the Xulrunner
# installation and is used to locate Xulrunner's installed files. This
# option is is only used for development purposes.
#ac_add_options --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;</literal>

EOF</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you did not install <xref linkend="nspr"/> and
    <xref linkend="nss"/>, then apply the patch with the following
    command:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../firefox-&firefox-version;-provide_system_nss_nspr-1.patch</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install <application>Xulrunner</application> by issuing the
    following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>echo "Requires: nspr" >>xulrunner/installer/libxul-embedding.pc.in &amp;&amp;
make -f client.mk build</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<!-- I really don't think we need the last command to installl symlinks to the
     Xul libraries. Any package using Xul is going to use the pkgconfig file to
     find the things it needs -->
<screen role="root"><userinput>make -f client.mk install &amp;&amp;

install -v -m755 -d /usr/lib/mozilla &amp;&amp;
ln -sv              /usr/lib/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;/plugins \
                    /usr/lib/mozilla &amp;&amp;

chown -Rv root:root /usr/lib/xulrunner-* \
                    /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version; \
                    /usr/include/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;</userinput></screen>
                    
<!-- commented out per discussion on BLFS-Dev
ln -sfv             xulrunner-devel-&xulrunner-version;/lib/lib{xul,xpcom,mozjs}.so \
                    /usr/lib</userinput></screen> -->

    <para>If you elected to use the included NSPR and NSS, while still the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, complete the
    installation with the following commands:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>for DL in \
    libnss3.so libnssutil3.so libsmime3.so libssl3.so libsoftokn3.so \
    libplds4.so libplc4.so libnspr4.so
do
    ln -sv xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;/$DL /usr/lib
done &amp;&amp;
unset DL</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>echo "Requires: nspr"
    >>xulrunner/installer/libxul-embedding.pc.in</command>: If you try to build
    <application>Yelp</application> without this, the
    prtypes header from NSPR will not be found.  It is arguable whose error this
    is (the code presumably works on earlier geckos), but this fix is unlikely
    to cause any damage in other packages.</para>

    <para><command>make -f client.mk ...</command>: Mozilla products are
    packaged to allow the use of a configuration file which can be used to
    pass the configuration settings to the <command>configure</command>
    command. <command>make</command> uses the <filename>client.mk</filename>
    file to get initial configuration and setup parameters, then depending on
    the target parameter (<parameter>build</parameter> or
    <parameter>install</parameter>), either runs the
    <command>configure</command> script and compiles the package or installs
    the package.</para>

    <para><command>for DL in ...</command>: The NSPR and NSS libraries shipped
    with this package are installed into
    <filename class='directory'>/usr/lib/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;</filename>
    which means they will not be found at runtime.  By using symbolic links from
    <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> the libraries will be found
    and the links can be easily changed to point to a newer version during an
    upgrade.</para>

    <para><command>ln -sv /usr/lib/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;/plugins
    /usr/lib/mozilla</command>: Some packages will install browser plugins
    into <filename class='directory'>/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins</filename>.
    Creating this as a symlink to the <application>Xulrunner</application>
    plugins keeps additional plugins in a common directory.</para>

   <note>
     <para>When you upgrade Xulrunner, remember to update the symlinks and to
     copy any additional plugins compiled against this series of Xulrunner to the
     new plugin directory.</para>
   </note>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>xulrunner, and optionally nspr-config</seg>
        <seg>Numerous libraries, browser components, plugins, extensions, and
        helper modules installed in <filename
        class='directory'>/usr/lib/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;</filename></seg>
        <seg>/etc/gre.d, /usr/include/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;,
        /usr/lib/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;,
        /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-&xulrunner-version;, and
        /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-&xulrunner-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="xulrunner-prog">
        <term><command>xulrunner</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a shell script, useful for identifying the version
          installed.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xulrunner xulrunner-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-xulrunner">xulrunner</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>