Changeset 0f1ea40 for xsoft

Timestamp:

11/09/2014 10:45:27 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

615961f

Parents:

637f310

Message:

Tweak text concerning 686 optimization in seamonkey and firefox.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@14864 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

xsoft/graphweb

Files:

• firefox.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• seamonkey.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -229 +229 @@
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>
-      There is a problem in i686 systems, when build with
-      <application>gcc</application> ranging from 4.8 to 4.9.1, and using the
-      switch <quote>--enable-optimize</quote>. You have two alternatives, best
-      one being the upgrade of <application>gcc</application> to version 4.9.2,
-      because that switch implies better perfomance and smaller binaries.
-      However, if you do not wish to upgrade gcc, disable the switch with:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed -i 's/enable-optimize/disable-optimize/' mozconfig || true</userinput></screen>
+    <note><para>
+      There is a problem on i686 systems when building
+      <application>Firefox</application> with <application>gcc</application>
+      versions ranging from 4.8 to 4.9.1 and using the switch
+      <quote>--enable-optimize</quote>. There are two alternatives. The best
+      one is to upgrade <application>gcc</application> to version 4.9.2 or later
+      because it will give better perfomance and smaller binaries.  However, if
+      you do not wish to upgrade gcc, reduce the level of optimization with:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed -i 's/enable-optimize/&amp;=-O2/' mozconfig || true</userinput></screen>
+    </note>
 
     <para>
@@ -287 +289 @@
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
-
-    <para>
-      <command>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed ...</command>:
-      On this version of seamonkey, an old bug has reappeared in 32-bit builds.
-      With optimization, the install fails<!-- with a Python error-->.  This
-      command will fix i686 builds and preserve the optimization on x86_64.
-    </para>
 
     <para>

xsoft/graphweb/seamonkey.xml

@@ -242 +242 @@
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>
+    <note><para>
       There is a problem on i686 systems when building
       <application>SeaMonkey</application> with <application>gcc</application>
       versions ranging from 4.8 to 4.9.1 and using the switch
       <quote>--enable-optimize</quote>. There are two alternatives. The best
-      one is to upgrade <application>gcc</application> to version 4.9.2 or later,
+      one is to upgrade <application>gcc</application> to version 4.9.2 or later
       because it will give better perfomance and smaller binaries.  However, if
       you do not wish to upgrade gcc, reduce the level of optimization with:
@@ -253 +253 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed -i 's/enable-optimize/&amp;=-O2/' mozconfig || true</userinput></screen>
+    </note>
 
     <note><para>
@@ -308 +309 @@
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
-
-    <para>
-      <command>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed ...</command>:
-      On this version of seamonkey, an old bug has reappeared in 32-bit builds.
-      With optimization, the install fails<!-- with a Python error-->.  This
-      command will fix i686 builds and preserve the optimization on x86_64.
-    </para>
 
     <para>