Re: GNU IceCat 3.0

[Sean Artman]

On 7/1/08, Bruno Miguel <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Installing Firefox or IceCat with "make install" is probably not the
>  > best way. I always use "make -C browser/installer" instead, which
>  > creates a tar archive in /dist that can be extracted somewhere to
>  > install the browser. Then to uninstall you just have remove a single
>  > directory.
>
>
> To do that, you need to enable the installer option in ./configure and
>  pass this options (--enable-static --disable-shared), right?
>

Or you can hack browser/installer/Makefile to take out the check for a
static build (simply delete 2 lines). Just remember that the resulting
package won't run on other systems.