Tim Wunder: mozilla compile options?

[Tim Wunder]

On Friday 06 September 2002 08:37 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> Tim,
> Did you ever have any luck finding those Mozilla compile options?

No, not realy.
Best I could come up with was this page:
http://www.mozilla.org/build/distribution.html
and this one
http://webtools.mozilla.org/build/config.cgi
and a couple posts on netscape.public.mozilla.unix from someone who compiled 
an optimized RedHat RPM:
<quote 1>
This is Mozilla 1.0 built for Red Hat 7.3 on i686 with -O2 
-fno-omit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops, and links to the system libjpeg, 
libpng, libmng, libzlib (you must have these Red Hat-provided libraries 
installed, but most if not all systems do).  It includes crypto and mailnews; 
no debugging or tracing.
http://www.quiotix.com/~jbs/mozilla-1.0-rh7.3/2002-06-20/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
</quote>

<quote 2>
Reminded b a post on mozilla.performance that GCC does not inline functions at 
-O3, I decided to try an -O3 build (-O3 is equivalent to -O2 except that it 
enables -finline-functions).  The result still seems rock solid, and appears 
to a bit snappier, especially in mail-news, but I can't offer any solid 
numbers on this.

Anyway, same deal: use at your own risk, "AS IS", no warranty, but it seems to 
work for me.  You must have jpeg, zlib, png, and mng system libraries 
installed.  Please email me feedback if you find it useful.

http://www.quiotix.com/~jbs/mozilla-1.0-rh7.3/2002-06-24-O3/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
</quote>

Feel free to try something out. I haven't bothered trying anything yet 
because, well, because I'm always finding other things to "tickle my fancy" 
with regards to software installation. 

<boring detail and blabbering follows, continue at your own risk>
Someone on kde-devel got me interested in trying krec, an audio recording app 
for kde. After several attempts at installing things piecemeal to get krec to 
compile (had to pull from CVS), I've ended up full bore into compiling kde 
from CVS (I'm also interested in seeing konqueror's implementation of tabbed 
browsing). Not an easy chore. 

Then there was that e-mail from Kantoine that got me chasing a damn "." bug, 
which I *still* haven't figgerd out.

And we've got a couple remodelling projects going on at the house (bathroom, 
kid's bedroom, workshop...) that I need to finish up; the kids started school 
this week; had to take care of my Fantasy Football League draft, jeez, what 
else?

Oh, yeah, I just spent 3 hours watching The Fellowship of the Ring and the 
wife brought home Pearl Harbor for tomorrow night...

Needless to say, Mozilla on linux has kinda taken the backburner once again. I 
reconfigured kmail to open Konqueror for http links, it's adequate as a 
browser, just not as good as Mozilla. Maybe I'll dig into it some more over 
the weekend....(just don't hold your breath.)

Regards,
Tim


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