Mozilla 1.3 ebuilds [Now In Portage!]

Craigo · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 11:11 pm Post subject:

Fair enough that mozilla 1.3 is only out by a few days but then if you just follow someone instructions of copying the ebuild as 1.3 instead of beta etc.

However, knowing debian.. they probably would whip it in in a couple of days. If this is the case, then how come X 4.2.x took a long time along with KDE 3.x

-/Craigo/-

Schlummi · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 31

Ok, Mozilla1.3 is working now. And blackdown1.4.1 seems to be the only working java-plugin, sun-1.4.1-02 and blackdown1.3.1 didn't work.
Anybody managed to get multizilla working in mozilla1.3?

Vancouverite · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 1:35 am Post subject:

These plugins are working for me (what a nice suprise): sun-j2sdk ver:1.4.1, mplayerplug-in 0.50 and Flash 6.0.
These are all I use so I can't help with multizilla.

Ansorg · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 193

I tried a modified 1.3-beta ebuild to get the final 1.3 ....

wuahhhh, no !!!

after hours and hours of building portage stops at

Vancouverite · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject:

Sounds more like a problem with the ebuild in the src_install function (as the error message indicates). Typically an enexpected end of file is due to an unclosed brace. Presumably your beta ebuild was tested previously and worked. The thread here is about the same issue. Sorry for your frustration but this has worked on three computers here at home.

kvanque · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 10

i did the "same" thing here and it worked, i say "same" because i didn't read the explaination - i first checked the forum after i compiled mozilla, however it seems to be the same steps, just remove that patch and compile it. works great -- got galeon 1.3.3 running with gtk2, very nice

count · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 3:15 am Post subject:

Just an update ...

Apparently the Mozilla crew have been known update the Mozilla tarball a few times after a new release.

So the ebuild maintainer is waiting for the tarbal to stay consistant before an ebuild is created.
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ronmon · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 2:13 pm Post subject:

It runs like a champ, but I found a strange and pleasant surprise. Instead of the usual thirty-eight minutes it normally takes to build mozilla (fairly consistent over the last several versions), it took less than eleven minutes! That didn't seem right, but I fired it up and tried some flash and java sites to check it out and voila, no problems.

Galeon-1.3.3 built without complaint in a normal time of about ten minutes. Since they have reinstituted some features I have been waiting for from the 1.2 branch, I used WANT_GTK2="yes" while emerging mozilla and unmasked galeon-1.3. I'm posting from it now and it works perfectly.

WindowMaker · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 3:15 pm Post subject:

Hello gentoo people:

A little off topic, but can someone tell me why mozilla (1.2 or 1.3; their tarball, no ebuild) crashes on certain sites. Example: www.wheatkings.com, which is the local junior hockey team. There are others I've stumbled on too, can't dig up their addresses right now.

Loading that page kills all mozilla windows on all our machines. Now for the embarassing part: These are redhat machines &72 and 80). Plugins loaded that are working: Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.0_01-b03, Shockwave Flash 6.0 r61.

Going to give gentoo a whirl this week, reading the install doc. Someone at work is very impressed with it. Neither of us is thrilled with debian.

TIA

count · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 4:05 pm Post subject:

aerogems · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 30

Craigo · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 5:59 pm Post subject:

Hang on, are you saying that the mozilla crew updated the tarball a few times? This I never knew about!

As for the 38 minutes compiling... well it does seems possible

I remember compiling mozilla 1.3 on this P4M 1.8ghz with 512mb DDR in around no less than a hour at least!

Ah speedy computers... can't live without them

-/Craigo/-

count · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 6:03 pm Post subject:

ronmon · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

Well it's a pretty fast machine, an A7M266-D sporting a pair of MP 1800+'s and 1024 MB ECC registered. A kernel, everything from 'make dep' to 'make modules_install', takes about four and a half minutes. I was pretty happy with 38 minutes for mozilla but...

Here's the result of:

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Vancouverite · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:31 am Post subject:

ronmon · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:56 am Post subject:

Nope, never bothered setting up ccache. The second time I built it was a little faster than the first (10 min. 57 sec.), which could not have been cached anyway. It will probably remain a pleasant mystery.

Still haven't found anything broken. And I upgraded the laptop too, though builds are much slower on a 1GHz PIII :)

BigBug · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 8:23 am Post subject:

;( where is offical ebuilds ? ;;(((
I wanna mozilla 1.3 ;)

p.s.: just joke ;)

Koon · Retired Dev Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 518

For all those who can't wait (I can't), Mozilla 1.3 ebuild file can be found at :
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17675

-K

aerogems · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 30

Just as a general question, as I was looking through the 1.3b ebuild, I noticed that there were patches listed for Mozilla 1.2b, and I can't help but wonder why they were there.

I removed them, and magically the spam filtering in the mail app started working.

Why are there patches for the previous version's beta release still being applied? Especially since they seem to have detrimental side effects.

mmealman · Guru Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 348 Location: Florida

Dunno. Maybe because they don't realize that the patches break the stuff you mentioned yet?

I'm using 1.3 unpatched right now and have found it to work great. I even got rid of spamassassin to use the built in Mozilla junk mail filter.

I did have some problems with Macromedia's latest flash player that you can download from their site(was broke in 1.2 also though), but I found out Gentoo as a netscape-flash ebuild and emerging that worked perfectly.

count · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2003 11:58 pm Post subject:

Just wanted to let everyone know that Mozilla 1.3 ebuilds are now in the portage tree under the "~x86" keyword.

I just got it compiled .... its awesome! ... so much better than 1.2.x and phoenix ... flash and java even is working!

also, it took me 188m32.246s .. or just over 3 hours!

it was worth it though
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dbasinge · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 1:39 am Post subject:

sgaap · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 1:27 pm Post subject:

I just emerged 1.3 form portage (unstable) and even with WANT_GTK2="yes" emerge mozilla will not build mozilla with gtk2 support

Besides that, the gtk1 build is surprisingly unstable...it even crashes on this topic (every time)