Changeset 566fcae for xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

Timestamp:

11/09/2014 01:59:30 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Fernando de Oliveira <fernando@…>

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:

08cc98a4

Parents:

45f401ea

Message:

Fixes to seamonkey-2.30: number of threads, optimization and dependencies.
Fixes to firefox-33.0.3: number of threads and optimization.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@14860 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

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

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -135 +135 @@
       <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
       <xref linkend="startup-notification"/>,
+      <xref linkend="valgrind"/>,
       <xref linkend="wget"/>,
       <xref linkend="wireless_tools"/>, and
@@ -160 +161 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>cat &gt; mozconfig &lt;&lt; "EOF"
-<literal># If you have a multicore machine, firefox will now use all the cores by
-# default. Exceptionally, you can reduce the number of cores, e.g. to 1,
-# by uncommenting the next line and setting a valid number of CPU cores.
-#mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j1"
-
-# If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
+<literal># If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line:
 ac_add_options --disable-dbus
 
@@ -234 +230 @@
 
     <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 $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed -i 's/enable-optimize/disable-optimize/' mozconfig || true</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
       Compile <application>Firefox</application> by issuing the following
       commands:
@@ -241 +248 @@
       If you are compiling <application>Firefox</application> in chroot, make
       sure you have <envar>$SHELL</envar> environment variable set or prepend
-      <envar>SHELL=/bin/sh</envar> to the first make command below.
+      <envar>SHELL=/bin/sh</envar>.
     </para></note>
-<!--<screen><userinput>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed -i 's/enable-optimize/disable-optimize/' mozconfig || true &amp;&amp;-->
-<screen><userinput>make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>
+
+<screen><userinput>MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS='<replaceable>&lt;number&gt;</replaceable>' \
+make -f client.mk</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>
+      where <replaceable>&lt;number&gt;</replaceable> is a integer between 1
+      and the number of threads of your processor. The variable
+      <envar>MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS</envar> governs the number of parallel processes
+      used by <command>make</command>. If it is not defined, the compilation
+      will use all threads of a multithread machine. If this is what you want,
+      just delete the line with <envar>MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS</envar> in the command
+      above.
+    </para>
 
     <para>
@@ -254 +272 @@
     </para>
 
-<screen role="root"><userinput>make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &amp;&amp;
+<screen role="root"><userinput>MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS='<replaceable>&lt;number&gt;</replaceable>' \
+make -f client.mk install INSTALL_SDK= &amp;&amp;
 
 mkdir -pv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins &amp;&amp;
 ln -sfv ../../mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-&firefox-version;/browser</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>
+      Here, the same comments about <envar>MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS</envar>, after the
+      compile command above, apply.
+    </para>
+
   </sect2>
 
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
-<!--
+
     <para>
       <command>test $(uname -m) = "i686" &amp;&amp; sed ...</command>:
-      On this version of firefox, an old bug has reappeared in 32-bit builds.
-      With optimization, the install fails with a Python error.  This
+      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>
 
     <para>