Changeset 361df3e for xsoft

Timestamp:

08/25/2005 02:16:32 AM (19 years ago)

Author:

Randy McMurchy <randy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

2034389

Parents:

9d227199

Message:

Fixed the profile locking issue and added an optional command to the Firefox instructions to open a new tab in an existing browser window, both suggestions provided by Kevin Somervill

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@4979 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -12 +12 @@
   <!ENTITY firefox-time          "10.3 SBU">
 ]>
+
+<!--
+
+Devs:
+
+Always check the browser/config/mozconfig file in the source tree for
+any changes to the options passed to configure. This file shows the
+default build used by Mozilla. BLFS adds to this, but the values here
+should be in our setup.
+
+-->
 
 <sect1 id="firefox" xreflabel="Firefox-&firefox-version;">
@@ -84 +95 @@
     explanations and additional configuration information.</para>
 
+    <para><application>Firefox</application> default behavior when invoked
+    with a URL parameter is to open a new browser window. If you would rather
+    <application>Firefox</application> open a new tab in an existing browser
+    window, issue the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's|openURL(\${_optLast}|&amp;, new-tab|' browser/app/mozilla.in</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>Compile and install <application>Firefox</application> by
     running the following commands:</para>
@@ -90 +108 @@
 export BUILD_OFFICIAL="1" &amp;&amp;
 export MOZ_PHOENIX="1" &amp;&amp;
+sed -i 's|    dist_bin="\$moz_libdir"|\
+&amp;\n    run_moz="\$dist_bin/run-mozilla.sh"|' browser/app/mozilla.in &amp;&amp;
 ./configure --prefix=/usr \
-            --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/firefox-1.0 \
+            --with-default-mozilla-five-home=/usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version; \
             --with-user-appdir=.firefox \
             --with-system-zlib \
@@ -130 +150 @@
 
 <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
-install -d /usr/include/firefox-&firefox-version;/nss &amp;&amp;
-cp -Lf dist/private/nss/*.h dist/public/nss/*.h \
+install -v -m755 -d /usr/include/firefox-&firefox-version;/nss &amp;&amp;
+cp -v -Lf dist/private/nss/*.h dist/public/nss/*.h \
     /usr/include/firefox-&firefox-version;/nss</userinput></screen>
 
@@ -157 +177 @@
 unset BUILD_OFFICIAL &amp;&amp;
 unset MOZ_PHOENIX</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="commands">
+    <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para><command>sed -i '...' browser/app/mozilla.in</command>: This command
+    fixes an issue where <application>Firefox</application> wants to call the
+    profile manager instead of just invoking another copy of itself.</para>
 
   </sect2>