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Revision as of 13:15, 8 November 2007
Contents
Profile
Name: Lukas Blakk
IRC: lsblakk
Email: lsblakk [at] learn [dot] senecac [dot] ca
Web: Crash Open Source class blog, Backinblakk Videoblog, Hire Me
Fifth semester BSD student. Currently on a steep learning curve. I am a returning student and thus, hadn't been in school for 11 years. Prior to this I have worked many jobs including (but not limited to) 7-11 clerk, Subway sandwich artist, nanny, cook, brunch chef, LCBO temp, delivering NOW Magazine, and many other odd jobs.
Even though my name is Lukas, I am in fact female. It is important that I tell you that because otherwise you might not know and so now you do - let's move on.
I'm most interested in web development, film/video - making, editing, videoblogging. I also knit...to give my eyes a break from computer screens. I'd like to learn more about graphic design to complement my interest in web development and design.
Outside of the Seneca @ York universe I am teaching computer essentials to folks who are deaf-blind through the Canadian Helen Keller Center. Interesting fact: you can be 'deaf-blind' without being completely deaf or completely blind. I am enjoying this experience and I hope to continue during the school year.
Inside the S@Y universe I am trying to take more steps to be involved. This is what brought me to here.
Current Project(s)
- Mozilla Source and Symbol Server - Project Leader
- CSS guide - porting to MDC CSS Reference
Contributions
Class Labs
- Incremental Build Lab - Patch for making tabs open on the right of the tab that creates it
- Extension Creation Lab - AddTabBeside
- Thunderbird bug fix lab - LukasBlakkTBBugFixLab
My Bugs
As a result of running tests on Litmus I have been starting to write bug reports. Next week on Bug Day, I hope to learn how to triage bugs and go even deeper into the matrix.
Filed on Friday Nov 2, 2007
FSOSS Report
Building Firefox
On the PC
See my blog for complete run through
On the Mac
Okay, so I'm on a Power PC Mac G5 Dual 2 GHz running OS X 10.4.7 (I can't update to 10.4.8 because it messes up the networked printer).
Following the instructions on Mac OS X Build Prerequisites was tremendously useful. Xcode installers were already on the system and downloading DarwinPorts was a speedy.
libIDL and GLib
Once DarwinPorts was installed, I installed libIDL and GLib:
$ sudo port sync $ sudo port install libidl
autoconf
Following that I installed autoconf:
$ sudo port install autoconf213
Gcc
I also changed my compiler:
$ sudo gcc_select 3.3
.mozconfig
At this point, I tried to check out the source code, but I hadn't followed the directions closely enough, and didn't have a .mozconfig file set up and so I went back to the drawing board.
I set up a .mozconfig file based on the default and this is what it ended up being (includes the use of objdir based on this page:
1 # This file specifies the build flags for Firefox. You can use it by adding: 2 # . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig 3 # to the top of your mozconfig file. 4 5 . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig 6 mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser 7 ac_add_options --enable-application=browser 8 mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@
Checkout
Finally, I was able to check out the source code (once I remembered to be in the mozilla directory) using make:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/browser/config/mozconfig $ cd mozilla $ make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
Build
More time passes...then it's time to build:
$ make -f client.mk build
Hours go by before I get the message: "make[4]: `tools/test-harness/Makefile' is up to date."
This is the moment I know you've been waiting for. With baited breath, I go into obj-powerpc-apple-darwin8.70/dist/Minefield.app, when I am told upon double clicking that I must close the 15 Firefox tabs before I can open it.
Proof of Life
Links
PC Build documentation:
- Liz_Chak_Assignment_1
- David Humphrey's Guide to Building Firefox on Win32 using Visual Studio .NET 2005
And also auenf2 on irc://irc.mozilla.org/#firefox for figuring out that it was the line endings preventing me from a seamless build.
Mac Build Documentation:
