Assignment 1(djhamp-g)

Hardware

• ubuntu drapper 6.06
• 40gb harddrive

Description

I first started this prosess on windows early on because of Daves suggestion to use the OS your most familiar with but then after seeing ubuntu's flashy and compelling site I decided to disregard that and try something new on something new.

Build Process

• To start off I downloaded the newest ubuntu release (drapper) from their bittorrent server.
• burned the ubuntu iso to a CD.
• Transfered my files from the smaller of my two hard drives to my larger and set the smaller one to master.
• Installed ubuntu using the CD I created.
• Downloaded the firefox version i was currently using which was FireFox 1.5.6.
• Extracted .tar
• set .mozconfig to the static example on site.
• Started build(first try) saw:

/opt/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin/gtk2xtbin.c:906: error: ‘treeroot’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin/gtk2xtbin.c:909: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
/opt/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin/gtk2xtbin.c:913: error: ‘user_data’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin/gtk2xtbin.c:925: error: ‘Widget’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin/gtk2xtbin.c:925: error: syntax error before ‘child’
/opt/mozilla/widget/src/gtkxtbin/gtk2xtbin.c:926: error: ‘child’ undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [gtk2xtbin.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/firefox-build/widget/src/gtkxtbin'
make[2]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/firefox-build'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/firefox-build'
make: *** [build] Error 2

• fix: missing libidl-dev

sudo apt-get install libidl-dev

• Started build(second try) saw:

:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x4fd): undefined reference to `XGetWindowProperty'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x55d): undefined reference to `XChangeProperty'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x575): undefined reference to `XUngrabServer'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x58b): undefined reference to `XSync'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x625): undefined reference to `XNextEvent'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x695): undefined reference to `XFree'
XRemoteClient_standalone.o: In function `XRemoteClient::FreeLock(unsigned long)':XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x728): undefined reference to   `XGetWindowProperty'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x753): undefined reference to `XFree'
XRemoteClient_standalone.o: In function `XRemoteClient::FindBestWindow(char const*, char const*, char const*, int)':XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x7b6):  undefined reference to `XQueryTree'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x87a): undefined reference to `XGetWindowProperty'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x8a5): undefined reference to `XFree'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x976): undefined reference to `XGetWindowProperty'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x99c): undefined reference to `XFree'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x9a9): undefined reference to `XFree'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xa29): undefined reference to `XGetWindowProperty'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xa4b): undefined reference to `XFree'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xa59): undefined reference to `XFree'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xac2): undefined reference to `XGetWindowProperty'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xae4): undefined reference to `XFree'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xaee): undefined reference to `XFree'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xb26): undefined reference to `XFree' 
XRemoteClient_standalone.o: In function `XRemoteClient::WaitForResponse(unsigned long, char**, int*, unsigned long)':XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xb8b):  undefined reference to `XNextEvent'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xc42): undefined reference to `XGetWindowProperty'
:XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xd56): undefined reference to `XFree'
XRemoteClient_standalone.o: In function `XRemoteClient::DoSendCommandLine(unsigned long, int, char**, char**, int*)':XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xe94):  undefined reference to `XChangeProperty'
XRemoteClient_standalone.o: In function `XRemoteClient::SendCommandLine(char const*, char const*, char const*, int, char**, char**,  int*)':XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0xf3d): undefined reference to `XSelectInput'
XRemoteClient_standalone.o: In function `XRemoteClient::DoSendCommand(unsigned long, char const*, char**, int*)':XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x100f):  undefined reference to `XChangeProperty'
XRemoteClient_standalone.o: In function `XRemoteClient::SendCommand(char const*, char const*, char const*, char const*, char**,  int*)':XRemoteClient.cpp:(.text+0x10a7): undefined reference to `XSelectInput'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [mozilla-xremote-client] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/inveigle/Desktop/mozilla/ff-opt-static/widget/src/xremoteclient'
make[2]: *** [tier_50] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/inveigle/Desktop/mozilla/ff-opt-static'
make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/inveigle/Desktop/mozilla/ff-opt-static'
make: *** [build] Error 2

• fix: change mozconfig and remove (this is a problem only with FF ver 1.5.6 only)

ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-static

• build success!

Retrospect

Looking back this whole process wasn't as hard as I was lead to believe, but I'm glad I went in with this assumption because I scared me enough to get it done early and when I finished I actually had some sence of accomplishment. I'm also really glad I did this on ubuntu and got some linux experence, overall it was a great experence.