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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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  <!ENTITY mozilla-download-http "http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla&mozilla-version;/src/mozilla-source-&mozilla-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY mozilla-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla&mozilla-version;/src/mozilla-source-&mozilla-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY mozilla-size          "35 MB">
  <!ENTITY mozilla-buildsize     "700 MB">
  <!ENTITY mozilla-time          "15.22 SBU">

  <!ENTITY enigmail-version      "0.84.1">
  <!ENTITY ipc-version           "1.0.5">
]>

<sect1 id="mozilla" xreflabel="Mozilla-&mozilla-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="mozilla.html" ?>
<title>Mozilla-&mozilla-version;</title>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Mozilla</application></title>

<para><application>Mozilla</application> is a browser suite, the Open Source 
sibling of <application>Netscape</application>. It includes the browser, 
composer, mail and news clients, a calendar client and an 
<acronym>IRC</acronym> client.</para>

<para>The <application>Mozilla</application> project also hosts two subprojects 
that aim to satisfy the needs of users who don't need the complete browser 
suite or like to have separate applications for browsing and e-mail. These 
subprojects are
<ulink url="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Mozilla Firefox</ulink>, 
(a stand-alone browser based on the 
<application>Mozilla</application> source code) and <ulink 
url="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/">Mozilla Thunderbird</ulink>,
(a stand-alone mail client based on the <application>Mozilla</application> 
source code). The build instructions for these two applications are discussed 
in separate sections:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><xref linkend="firefox"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><xref linkend="thunderbird"/></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&mozilla-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&mozilla-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &mozilla-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
&mozilla-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&mozilla-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>

<para>To enable the <application>Enigmail</application> extension to the 
<application>Mozilla</application> and <application>Thunderbird</application> 
mail clients, you'll need to download the two tarballs below. The 
<application>Enigmail</application> extension allows users to access the 
authentication and encryption features provided by the 
<application>GnuPG</application> package.</para>

<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<!-- <listitem><para><ulink url="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">Enigmail Extension
(Version &enigmail-version;)</ulink> 
(Useful only if Mozilla Mail is built)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">Inter Process
Communicaton Extension (Version &ipc-version;)</ulink>
(Needed for Enigmail)</ulink></para></listitem> -->

<listitem><para><ulink
url="http://downloads.mozdev.org/enigmail/src/enigmail-&enigmail-version;.tar.gz"/>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink
url="http://downloads.mozdev.org/enigmail/src/ipc-&ipc-version;.tar.gz"/>
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title><application>Mozilla</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para><xref linkend="zip"/>, <xref linkend="GTK2"/>, <xref linkend="libIDL"/>, 
<xref linkend="libmng"/> and <xref linkend="which"/></para></sect4>
<sect4><title>Recommended</title>
<para><xref linkend="gnupg"/> (for Enigmail extension)</para></sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Mozilla</application></title>

<!--
<note>
<para>According to the financial institutions, the following hack makes your
browser insecure. You have been warned. Many sites use an MS-IE specific tag 
(autocomplete=off) to prevent autocomplete from working in some forms. This 
tag is now supported in <application>Mozilla</application> to appease 
the financial institutions. As per 
the requirements of the financial institutions, they will not even accept a 
solution where this a preference option. However our opinion is that it should 
be in the hands of the user. To enable autocomplete to bypass
this restriction, we need to make a slight modification in the code.</para>

<para>Open the file <filename>extensions/wallet/src/wallet.cpp</filename> in
the <application>Mozilla</application> source tree and search for the line:
<screen>#define WALLET_DONT_CACHE_ALL_PASSWORDS</screen>
Then delete or comment out the line.  Now, if anyone tells you MS-IE is user
friendly, give them this example!</para>
</note>
-->

<warning><para>Do not install <application>Mozilla</application>, 
<application>Mozilla Firefox</application> and 
<application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application> with a single prefix since they 
install identically named files. The <acronym>BLFS</acronym> Book installs 
<application>Mozilla</application> in <filename>/usr</filename> while 
<application>Mozilla Firefox</application> and 
<application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application> are installed in 
<filename>/opt</filename>.</para></warning>

<para>Compile <application>Mozilla</application> by running the following 
commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL="1" &amp;&amp;
export BUILD_OFFICIAL="1" &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/mozilla \
            --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 \
            --with-x --with-system-zlib \
            --with-system-jpeg --with-system-png --with-system-mng \
            --enable-xft --enable-crypto \
            --disable-accessibility \
            --disable-tests --disable-debug \
            --disable-logging --enable-reorder \
            --enable-strip --disable-pedantic \
            --enable-cpp-rtti --enable-extensions=all &amp;&amp;
make</command></userinput></screen>

<para>If you're building the <application>Mozilla</application> mail and news 
clients and plan to install the <application>Enigmail</application> 
extension, execute the following steps:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>tar zxf ../enigmail-&enigmail-version;.tar.gz -C extensions &amp;&amp;
tar zxf ../ipc-&ipc-version;.tar.gz -C extensions &amp;&amp;
build/autoconf/make-makefile extensions/ipc extensions/enigmail &amp;&amp;
make -C extensions/ipc &amp;&amp;
make -C extensions/enigmail &amp;&amp;
make -C extensions/enigmail/build xpi &amp;&amp;
make -C extensions/enigmail/package xpi</command></userinput></screen>

<para>Install <application>Mozilla</application> as follows:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>make install &amp;&amp;
install -d /usr/include/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/nss &amp;&amp;
cp -Lf dist/private/nss/*.h dist/public/nss/*.h \
   /usr/include/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/nss &amp;&amp;
ln -nsf mozilla-&mozilla-version; /usr/include/mozilla &amp;&amp;
ln -nsf mozilla-&mozilla-version; /usr/lib/mozilla</command></userinput></screen>

<para>Some libraries installed by <application>Mozilla</application> are also 
needed by other packages. These libraries should be in 
<filename>/usr/lib</filename> so that other packages can link against them. 
Move them as follows:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>for i in lib{nspr4,plc4,plds4,nss3,smime3,softokn3,ssl3}.so libsoftokn3.chk
do
   mv /usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/$i /usr/lib/
   ln -sf ../$i /usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/
done</command></userinput></screen>

<para>Install the <application>Enigmail</application> extension as 
follows:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>make -C extensions/ipc install &amp;&amp;
make -C extensions/enigmail install</command></userinput></screen>

<para>To enable multi-user operation, execute the following:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>cd /usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version; &amp;&amp;
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;" &amp;&amp;
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;" &amp;&amp;
./regxpcom &amp;&amp;
./regchrome &amp;&amp;
touch `find /usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version; -name *.rdf`</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Optional Extra Switches</title>

<para>Each of these switches can be added to the configure line in order to
have the described effect on the <application>Mozilla</application> 
compile.</para>

<para><option>--enable-elf-dynstr-gc</option>: Removes un-referenced
strings from <acronym>ELF</acronym> shared objects generated during the build. 
Note that this option breaks the build on alpha.</para>

<para><option>--disable-mailnews</option>: Disable the mail and news
clients.</para>

<para><option>--disable-ldap</option>: Disable <acronym>LDAP</acronym> 
support, recommended if mail is disabled.</para>

<para><option>--enable-calendar</option>: Build the calendar client.</para>

<para><option>--enable-xterm-updates</option>: This option is for enabling 
the <command>xterm</command> window title with the current command when 
compiling.</para>

<para><option>--enable-plaintext-editor-only</option>: Disable support
for <acronym>HTML</acronym> editing. Do not use this switch if you are 
building the mail-news component.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>

<para><screen><command>export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL="1" &amp;&amp;
export BUILD_OFFICIAL="1"</command></screen>
Set some variables that affect what and how the package is built. These two 
exports specify a distribution is being built.</para>

<!--
<para> The last export specifies that we
are ok with the <acronym>LGPL</acronym> versioned libart.</para>
-->

<para><parameter>--prefix=/usr</parameter>: Previously 
<application>Mozilla</application> did not support the <command>make 
install</command> option. Hence, the package was installed in 
<filename>/opt</filename>. The package now supports 
"<command>make install</command>" and follows the <acronym>FHS</acronym> 
guidelines for installation. Therefore the book now recommends installation 
in a system wide prefix such as <filename>/usr</filename>.</para>

<para><screen><option>--enable-toolkit-gtk2</option></screen>
Use the gtk2 toolkit.</para>

<para><screen><option>--with-system-zlib --with-system-jpeg \
--with-system-png --with-system-mng</option></screen>
Use the system installed versions of these packages.</para>

<para><option>--enable-xft</option>: Enable Xft support. You need 
<application>fontconfig</application> or the latest 
<application>XFree86</application> version to enable Xft.</para>

<para><option>--enable-crypto</option>: Enable the Personal
Security Manager to enable <acronym>SSL</acronym> connections.</para>

<para><screen><option>--disable-jsd --disable-accessibility \
--disable-tests --disable-debug \
--disable-dtd-debug \
--disable-logging --enable-reorder \
--enable-strip \
--enable-cpp-rtti</option></screen>
Various options that affect what components are built and some optimization
options. You can pick and choose from these options. More information on them 
can be found in the <application>Mozilla</application> 
<command>configure</command> script help. Not all options are used in the 
instructions given above.</para>

<para><option>--enable-extensions=...</option>: Enables extensions.  If you 
want, you can disable all extensions other than the browser by changing this 
switch to 
<parameter>--enable-extensions="default,-venkman,-inspector,-irc"</parameter>. 
For a short description of the various extensions available with the 
<application>Mozilla</application> source, see
<ulink 
url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/downloads/mozilla-extensions.txt"/>.
</para>

<para><screen><command>install -d /usr/include/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/nss
cp -Lf dist/private/nss/*.h dist/public/nss/*.h \
   /usr/include/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/nss</command></screen>
Copy the nss headers that are not copied by make install.</para>

<!--
<para><userinput>install -d /usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;/openoffice</userinput> :
Make a directory to store static libraries that openoffice needs during compilation.
These libraries are not installed by default.</para>
-->

<para><command>ln -nsf mozilla-&mozilla-version; ...</command>:
<application>Mozilla</application> installs headers and libraries in version 
specific directories. This command makes symbolic links so that applications 
depending on <application>Mozilla</application> (such as 
<application>OpenOffice</application>, <application>Galeon</application>, 
etc.) don't need to know which version of <application>Mozilla</application> 
is installed.</para>

<para><screen><command>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;" &amp;&amp;
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla-&mozilla-version;" &amp;&amp;
./regxpcom &amp;&amp;
./regchrome &amp;&amp;
touch `find /usr/lib/mozilla-${VERSION} -name *.rdf`</command>
</screen>
Create the required component registries to enable multi-user installs. These
steps should be preformed by the root user each time a 
<application>Mozilla</application> add-on is installed. This will allow normal 
users to run <command>mozilla</command>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Configuring <application>Mozilla</application></title>

<para>No specific configuration is required as long as the 
<command>mozilla</command> binary is in the path for the user. If 
<application>Mozilla</application> is installed in a non-standard location, 
then make a symlink to the <command>mozilla</command> binary from 
<filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename>. The same thing applies for 
<application>Mozilla Firefox</application> and
<application>Mozilla Thunderbird</application>.</para>

<para>Many applications look for <command>netscape</command> when they need to 
open a browser. You may make the following symlink for convenience.</para>

<screen><userinput><command>ln -sf mozilla /usr/bin/netscape</command></userinput></screen>

<para>For installing various <application>Mozilla</application> plugins, refer 
to <ulink url="http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html">Mozdev's PluginDoc 
Project</ulink></para>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The <application>Mozilla</application> package contains
<command>mozilla</command> and the <application>Mozilla</application> 
libraries and plugins. The various components such as composer and mail-news 
can be accessed from the menu after <command>mozilla</command> starts or 
via command-line switches to the <command>mozilla</command> binary.
</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>