From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 06:31:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A95816A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:31:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from connectmail.carleton.ca (connectmail.carleton.ca [134.117.2.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CFE43D48 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:31:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [192.168.1.141] ([134.117.145.25]) by connectmail.carleton.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTPSA id <0ICK006JJ4S8E5@connectmail.carleton.ca> for gnome@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:31:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:31:24 -0500 From: Adam Weinberger In-reply-to: <20050227041052.GA55019@logik.ath.cx> To: markzero Message-id: <4221693C.5050600@FreeBSD.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) References: <20050227041052.GA55019@logik.ath.cx> cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox custom build hints? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:31:21 -0000 markzero wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm planning on trying to make a custom build of Firefox for FreeBSD. > I assumed that you, being the maintainer for the port, would be the > best person to address a few questions to first: > > 1. How may I modify the ports Makefile in order to enable static linking > and stripping? By this, I don't mean 'please guide me step by step', > but rather in your opinion, where would be the best place to make > this modification? Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with the > firefox configure/build scripts. ./configure --help > 2. Is it still possible to build with Motif? I have nothing against GTK, > you understand, it's just that I've found it tends to be faster on my > ancient boxes! AFAIK if you tell it to build with Motif, it'll build with GTK2 anyway. You're welcome to try, however. ./configure --help will give you the option to enable. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx