Since I have already installed the latest version of Ubuntu on my notebook, I would will only require a few more packages before I can execute my first build. My first step was to install any of the missing build prerequisites on the developer website on to my machine.

My next step was required me to download the most recent version of the Mozilla source code from the cvs repository. To accomplish this task, I first need to create a directory to hold all my cvs repositories. Finally, i need I needed to checkout the latest browser version from the Mozilla trunk and build it. I used the following commands to complete these tasks.

Now that we I have a link to the Mozilla repository, I can now specify which code segment to download using the MOZ_CO_PROJECT parameter. Since we’re I am only building Firefox, we can I am able to specify the keyword ‘browser’ for the MOZ_CO_PROJECT parameter, which will allow me to download only the browser components.

By accident, I missed the section that talks about discusses the build options configuration file. I then quickly moved to the Firefox build section and initiated the following command to build my newly downloaded browser source.