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Date:      Wed, 08 Mar 2000 17:50:13 -0800
From:      Dawn Endico <endico@mozilla.org>
To:        van.woerkom@netcologne.de
Cc:        mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG, slamm@netscape.com
Subject:   Re: No M14 build yet :(
Message-ID:  <38C70355.62B6CC17@mozilla.org>
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that's odd. i had a problem with the mozilla/mozilla
problem a couple weeks ago but it was fixed. You're
not using an old tree are you?  CCing slamm for
further comment.

It looks like the unix build doc needs updating. I'll
talk to leaf about that. thanks for pointing out the
problem.


Marc van Woerkom wrote:

> > I've never built on freebsd but  normally you
> > start mozilla from the 'mozilla' script.
> >
> > cd mozilla/dist/bin
> > ./mozilla
>
> My problem is the 'normally' - I am just starting to get in -
> so thanks a lot for your feedback.
>
> Allow me this problem first, before I come back to your answer:
>
> As usually I created a project specific directory in my projects
> tree:
>
>     /usr3/marc/projects/mozilla/
>
> This is supposed to keep mozilla related stuff, among it the
> source tree. So I end up with
>
>     /usr3/marc/projects/mozilla/mozilla/README/mozilla/README.build
>                                 ^
>                                 |
>                                Mozilla top dir
>
> From my attempts with client.mk I somehow got the impression that the
> client.mk cant grok this, and rather would see
>
>     /usr3/marc/projects/dir-not-named-mozilla/mozilla/..
>
> Before I try to gather evidence - the question to you:
> How do you organize your Mozilla sources?
>
> > All the appropriate magic incantations should be found in
> > the release notes.
>
> I took the above README.build and it said
>
>     For mozilla-the-client build instructions, please read:
>     http://www.mozilla.org/build
>
> This leads me to
>
>    http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html
>
> where I get information that does not work for me.
>
>               Build the Lizard
>
>                 1.cvs co -f mozilla/client.mk
>                 2.cd mozilla
>                 3.gmake -f client.mk
>
>                To rebuild without pulling the tree,
>
>                   gmake -f client.mk build
>
>                To pull the tree,
>
>                   gmake -f client.mk checkout
>
> and this one:
>
>                After the build
>
>                   cd dist/bin
>                   ./mozilla-apprunner.sh
>                   ./mozilla-viewer.sh
>
> > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m14.html
> >
> > http://www.mozilla.org/unix/
> > this page has more info about building and debugging unix builds.
>
> I'll have a look at these.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
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