[Techtalk] Trouble building the latest Mozilla

[Akkana]

Stuart Rogers writes:
> I wonder if someone could shed some light or point me in the right 
> direction for the problem I'm having.  I'm running SuSE Linux 7.3. 
> Currently have Mozilla 0.9.4.   Im trying to upgrade to the latest 
> version from the source tarball.   I was able to get ./configure to work 
> .  The problem is now with make.   Here is a sample of the error:
> 
> gmake export && gmake install
> gmake[1]: Entering directory 
> `/home/srogers/source/linux/extras/Mozilla/mozilla'
> gmake[2]: Entering directory 
> `/home/srogers/source/linux/extras/Mozilla/mozilla/config'
> /usr/bin/perl -I. ./bdate.pl build_number
> ../config/nsinstall -R -m 444 nsBuildID.h ../dist/include
> /usr/bin/perl -I/opt/mozilla//config /opt/mozilla//config/build-list.pl 
> ../dist/include/.headerlist nsBuildID.h
> Can't open perl script "/opt/mozilla//config/build-list.pl": No such 
> file or directory

It looks like mozilla's configure somehow decided that it was building
/opt/mozilla (where your installed mozilla lives) rather than the one
in your source directory.

Terri's suggestion:
| (using configure, this is probably ./configure
| --prefix=/home/srogers/source/linux/extras/Mozilla,

may be the right direction to take.  I'm not sure of the exact configure
option you'll need, though; it would help to see the output of
"configure" when you run it with no arguments, to figure out why it's
thinking that /opt/mozilla is the source directory.  (That sounds like
it might be a bug in mozilla's configure.in that should be fixed; you
probably aren't the only person who's hit this problem.)

I'm a mozilla developer -- feel free to send me private mail and we'll
get this figured out, or contact me on IRC ("akk") and we can work it
out in realtime -- either #linuxchix, or on #mozilla on irc.mozilla.org
(asking on #mozilla might be best, actually, since there might be people
there who will know the answer right off, but it's a high traffic
channel and can be a bit intimidating compared to #linuxchix).

	...Akkana