Changeset e29a0b1

Timestamp:

09/28/2017 04:37:02 AM (7 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gimp3, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

9dc2505

Parents:

9583e9c8

Message:

firefox-56.0

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@19278 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) (5 diffs)

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "25">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "28">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "09">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2017">
@@ -7 +7 @@
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "September 25th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "September 28th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
 -->
     <listitem>
+      <para>September 28th, 2017</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Update to firefox-56.0 and reinstate system
+          cairo in its build. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;9820">#9820</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
       <para>September 25th, 2017</para>
       <itemizedlist>

packages.ent

@@ -714 +714 @@
 <!-- Chapter 43 -->
 <!ENTITY chromium-version             "60.0.3112.101">
-<!ENTITY firefox-version              "55.0.3">
+<!ENTITY firefox-version              "56.0">
 <!ENTITY flashplayer-version          "26.0.0.151">
 <!ENTITY seamonkey-version            "2.48">

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        "bc55a68fdd6770215cfa7a49fe7e3c98">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "226 MB">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "6.0 GB (143 MB installed)">
-  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "26 SBU (with parallelism=4)">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-md5sum        "d1615a5d49f488bc8c48771669c29542">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-size          "244 MB">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-buildsize     "6.2 GB (139 MB installed)">
+  <!ENTITY firefox-time          "18 SBU (with parallelism=4)">
 ]>
 
@@ -76 +76 @@
         <para>
           Optional patch to allow system versions of <xref linkend="graphite2"/>
-          and <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/> - this should be regarded as experimental
+          and <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/>
           <ulink url="&patch-root;/firefox-&firefox-version;-system_graphite2_harfbuzz-1.patch"/>
         </para>
@@ -123 +123 @@
       <xref linkend="zip"/>
     </para>
+
+    <note>
+      <para>
+        The firefox developers wish to enable Stylo (replacement code to handle
+        Cascading Style Sheets) by default. At the moment that code cannot build
+        with system versions of nspr and pixman (it fails to find their headers)
+        so the BLFS editors have chosen to disable it. If you choose to enable
+        it, you <emphasis>must</emphasis> add <package>clang</package> from
+        <xref linkend="llvm"/> to the Required dependencies.
+      </para>
+    </note>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
@@ -231 +242 @@
 ac_add_options --disable-gconf
 
+# Stylo is the new CSS code, including the rust 'style'
+# package. It is enabled by default, but cannot find the
+# headers for system nspr, pixman. If you enable stylo you
+# must comment out system-nspr and system-pixman, and you
+# must also have installed clang.
+ac_add_options --disable-stylo
+
 # Comment out following options if you have not installed
 # recommended dependencies:
@@ -265 +283 @@
 ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier
 
-# From firefox-40, using system cairo causes firefox to crash
-# frequently when it is doing background rendering in a tab.
-#ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
+# From firefox-40, using system cairo caused firefox to crash
+# frequently when it was doing background rendering in a tab.
+# This appears to again work in firefox-56
+ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
 ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi
 ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman