Firefox custom build hints?

[Adam Weinberger]

markzero wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm planning on trying to make a custom build of Firefox for FreeBSD.
> I assumed that you, being the maintainer for the port, would be the
> best person to address a few questions to first:
> 
> 1. How may I modify the ports Makefile in order to enable static linking
>    and stripping? By this, I don't mean 'please guide me step by step',
>    but rather in your opinion, where would be the best place to make
>    this modification? Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with the
>    firefox configure/build scripts.

./configure --help

> 2. Is it still possible to build with Motif? I have nothing against GTK,
>    you understand, it's just that I've found it tends to be faster on my
>    ancient boxes!

AFAIK if you tell it to build with Motif, it'll build with GTK2 anyway. 
You're welcome to try, however. ./configure --help will give you the 
option to enable.

# Adam


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