Compiling from source

[Joe Villari]

Below are the links for the prebuilt PPC mozilla version 1.6b:

More information available here:
http://www.thecodefactory.org/mozilla/

Download directly from here:
http://www.thecodefactory.org/mozilla/mozilla-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-1.6b.tar.gz




Harvey Ussery wrote:
> 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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