Art Lemasters wrote:
> Chris Wareham wrote:

>> I've been rolling my own Mozilla from the 1.6 branch for a while, and
>> the results have proved very stable. I simply applied the pkgsrc patches
>> before building, and added the configure option for GTK2 support. I
>> noticed that the pkgsrc update to 1.6 also added a MOZILLA_USE_GTK2
>> option. However, the resulting package doesn't run. I haven't had time
>> to look into what pkgsrc is doing differently to the 'standard' Mozilla
>> build, or traced mozilla-bin to see where it exits.
>>
>> Chris
> 
> 
>   Thanks, Chris.  I'm having the same problem Jorgen's having with
> Mozilla 1.6, and in 1.6.1 using pkgsrc, also.  ...interesting.  Could
> it be that MOZILLA_USE_GTK2 is incorrect or something?  How did you
> write the option?  ...and in one of the makefiles?  ...can't help but
> wonder if it might have something to do with Composer crashing when
> anything's entered in its editing window (or when one chooses "File"
> and "Edit Page" from the browser), too.  Mozilla 1.6 was made with
> the earlier GTK (1.2.10) here.
> 
>   Last week's GTK, BTW, had unparsed (m4?, autoconf213?), improperly
> parsed or otherwise evil /usr/X11R6/include/gtk-1.2/gtk (and gdk)
> files, which didn't allow gdk-pixbuf to make, which didn't allow
> Mozilla to make.  That's fixed as of Saturday night (MST), but I
> wonder if that could have left any lib trash around, somewhere.
> ...all a user's simple minded assumptions here, of course.

   I'm trying it with

MOZILLA_USE_GTK2=YES

in /etc/mk.conf

and will report back to you.



Art