Re: Building GNU IceCat and Xulrunner

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hello,

thank you for the patch but it must be applied to the configure.in file
instead of configure.

I need to compile it in two separate steps as you did to see what is
causing this problem.

Regards,
Giuseppe

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> after I do make install I get a bin/icecat symbolic link to the proper
>> shell script under lib/icecat-version/.
> 
> Yes, building just the browser works fine.
> 
>> I never tried to build libxul before and after use it for IceCat.  If it
>> is causing troubles I will take a deeper look.
>>
>> How do you build it?
> 
> First I build Xulrunner, with "--enable-application=xulrunner
> --enable-libxul --disable-javaxpcom" and a few other mostly irrelevant
> options.  Then I build IceCat with "--enable-application=browser
> --with-libxul-sdk=/path/to/xulrunner".
> 
> Note that I apply the attached patch to work around a defect in
> `configure' that would tell the linker to look for `libxpcom_core' while
> this library is actually part of `libxpcom'.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo'.
> 
> 
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