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Steps taken:
 
Steps taken:
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1.Talk to Tom, asking him about how I get started.
 
1.Talk to Tom, asking him about how I get started.
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2.Realize I don't have enough disk space, remove 6GB of .ogg files.
 
2.Realize I don't have enough disk space, remove 6GB of .ogg files.
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3.Follow instructions at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Source_Code_Via_CVS to download the source code. No problems here.
 
3.Follow instructions at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Source_Code_Via_CVS to download the source code. No problems here.
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4.Copy paste the firefox optimised static example  
 
4.Copy paste the firefox optimised static example  
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5.Got an explanation from Tom about the things at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Configuring_Build_Options
 
5.Got an explanation from Tom about the things at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Configuring_Build_Options
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6.Ignored some of Tom's instructions as they conflict with the ones on the wiki.
 
6.Ignored some of Tom's instructions as they conflict with the ones on the wiki.
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7.Compiled for 1 hour at school. Tom said I should get ready to sleep there so did a ctrl+c and went home.
 
7.Compiled for 1 hour at school. Tom said I should get ready to sleep there so did a ctrl+c and went home.
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8.From home, typed in the same 'make -f client.mk build' and it seemed to continue. Only took about another hour or two to complete the build.
 
8.From home, typed in the same 'make -f client.mk build' and it seemed to continue. Only took about another hour or two to complete the build.
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9.The working firefox binary was found in ff-opt-static/dist/bin
 
9.The working firefox binary was found in ff-opt-static/dist/bin
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Apparently the full installation of Slackware has everything needed by the mozilla build.
 
Apparently the full installation of Slackware has everything needed by the mozilla build.
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I thought disk space would be a problem but deleting some non-critical data solved that.
 
I thought disk space would be a problem but deleting some non-critical data solved that.
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Latest revision as of 21:40, 20 September 2006

Assignment 1 - Andrew Smith

My platform of choice is Slackware 10.2.

Steps taken:

1.Talk to Tom, asking him about how I get started.

2.Realize I don't have enough disk space, remove 6GB of .ogg files.

3.Follow instructions at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Source_Code_Via_CVS to download the source code. No problems here.

4.Copy paste the firefox optimised static example

5.Got an explanation from Tom about the things at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Configuring_Build_Options

6.Ignored some of Tom's instructions as they conflict with the ones on the wiki.

7.Compiled for 1 hour at school. Tom said I should get ready to sleep there so did a ctrl+c and went home.

8.From home, typed in the same 'make -f client.mk build' and it seemed to continue. Only took about another hour or two to complete the build.

9.The working firefox binary was found in ff-opt-static/dist/bin


Apparently the full installation of Slackware has everything needed by the mozilla build.


I thought disk space would be a problem but deleting some non-critical data solved that.

Andrew-firefox-about.png