Changeset dc9a18a

Timestamp:

08/03/2016 11:56:27 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 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:

168ad40

Parents:

85aab27

Message:

firefox-48.0, and remove the now-invalid reference to gstreamer in mozconfig, also the lingering reference to webm.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@17624 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general.ent (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• packages.ent (modified) (1 diff)
• xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml (modified) (9 diffs)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "01">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "03">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "08">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2016">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 1st &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "August 3rd &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -44 +44 @@
 
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>August 3rd, 2016</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Update to firefox-48.0. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8137">#8137</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>August 1st, 2016</para>

packages.ent

@@ -677 +677 @@
 <!-- Chapter 43 -->
 <!ENTITY seamonkey-version            "2.40">
-<!ENTITY firefox-version              "47.0.1">
+<!ENTITY firefox-version              "48.0">
 
 <!-- Chapter 44 -->

xsoft/graphweb/firefox.xml

@@ -7 +7 @@
   <!ENTITY firefox-download-http "&mozilla-http;/firefox/releases/&firefox-version;/source/firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz">
   <!ENTITY firefox-download-ftp " ">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "aba4b673b10e3fdcee80f88300829613">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "df52f6cfdf98e10b3f036479f38406c4">
   <!ENTITY firefox-size          "180 MB">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "5.7 GB (85 MB installed)">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "18 SBU (with parallelism=4 on a recent intel i7, much longer on lesser CPUs)">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "5.3 GB (84 MB installed)">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "12 SBU (with parallelism=4 on a recent intel i7, much longer on lesser CPUs)">
 ]>
 
@@ -75 +75 @@
       <listitem>
         <para>
-          Required patch if using gcc-6 or later
-          <ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-gcc6-1.patch"/>
-        </para>
-      </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>
           Required patch if using gtk+-3.20 or later (do not use with earlier versions)
           <ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-gtk320-1.patch"/>
@@ -89 +83 @@
           Optional patch to allow system versions of <xref linkend="graphite2"/>
           and <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/> - this should be regarded as experimental
-          <ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-system_graphite2_harfbuzz-1.patch"/>
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-system_graphite2_harfbuzz-2.patch"/>
         </para>
       </listitem>
@@ -98 +92 @@
         The tarball <emphasis>firefox-&firefox-version;.source.tar.xz</emphasis>
         will untar to <emphasis>firefox-&firefox-version;</emphasis> directory.
+        However, if you do this in a directory where the sticky bit is set, such
+        as <filename class="directory">/tmp</filename> it will end with error
+        messages:
+      </para>
+
+<literallayout>tar: .: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
+tar: .: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-t: Operation not permitted
+tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
+</literallayout>
+
+      <para>
+        This does finish with non-zero status, but it does
+        <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> mean there is a real problem.
+        Do not untar as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user
+        in a directory where the sticky bit is set - that will unset it.
       </para>
     </note>
@@ -153 +162 @@
       <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
       <xref linkend="GConf"/>,
-      <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> (runtime) or
-      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-base"/> (with
-      <xref linkend="gst10-plugins-good"/> and
-      <xref linkend="gst10-libav"/> at runtime),
+      <xref linkend="evince"/> (for a plugin to display tiff, {e,}ps, Comic Book),
+      <xref linkend="ffmpeg"/> (runtime),
       <xref linkend="libwebp"/>,
       <xref linkend="openjdk"/>,
@@ -206 +213 @@
 ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi
 
-# GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player if
-# FFmpeg is not found at runtime;
-# to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true"
-# in about:config. If you have GStreamer 1.x.y, comment out this line and
-# uncomment the following one:
-ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer
-#ac_add_options --enable-gstreamer=1.0
-
 # Uncomment this option if you wish to build with gtk+-2
 #ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
@@ -283 +282 @@
 
     <para>
-      Fix an issue with GCC-6.0 and higher:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../firefox-&firefox-version;-gcc6-1.patch</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>
       If you are using gtk+-3.20 or later, apply a patch to restore the
       slider on scrollbars:
@@ -373 +366 @@
   <sect2 role="configuration">
     <title>Configuring Firefox</title>
-
-    <para>
-      If you did not add the <option>--disable-webm</option> option to your
-      <filename>mozconfig</filename>, your <application>Firefox</application>
-      can play most YouTube videos without the need for the Flash plugin.
-      Go to <ulink url="http://www.youtube.com/html5"/> to see which HTML5
-      video features your browser supports on YouTube.
-    </para>
 
     <para>
@@ -446 +431 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>
-            is a <application>GTK+ 2</application> internet browser that uses the
+            is a <application>GTK+ 3</application> internet browser that uses the
             Mozilla Gecko rendering engine.
           </para>