Compiling from source

[Harvey Ussery]

Thanks to Greg & Nathan for pointers. I'm tracking down available rpms 
now--might be better to go with a 1.4 rpm at this time rather than the 
1.6. Thanks.    --Harvey

Greg Hamilton wrote:

>> So does that mean I cannot download that Linux ver and do the usual
>> ./configure
>> make
>> make install
>> etc.  on a PPC? What exactly would "blow up" or be broken on my iMac 
>> if I did?
>
>
> Building from source shouldn't be a problem, it's where binary RPMs 
> come from after all.
>
> According to the Mozilla site you require Linux kernel >= 2.2.14, 
> glibc >= 2.24, gtk+ >= 1.20 and XFree86 >= 3.3.6 to build Mozilla from 
> source. These dependencies are all met by an up-to-date install of YDL 3.
>
> This is pretty lucky as all these packages will have dependancies of 
> their own. You could spend a long time tracking down all the required 
> packages and working out which order to build them in before finally 
> getting Mozilla running by which time half the stuff installed on your 
> machine would probably have stopped working because it was compiled 
> against older versions of everything you just updated. This is why 
> people started building distros and package management systems in the 
> first place.
>
> After you build Mozilla 1.6 anything that depends on Mozilla (eg. 
> galleon) may be broken. Probably not but maybe. And if you use yum to 
> install something which depends on Mozilla it might complain about 
> requiring a version of Moz which it doesn't think is installed even 
> though you know it is.
>
> I'm running 1.4. There's an RPM available through Freshrpms.
>
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