The problem of building mozilla 1.7.8

[Xu Qiang]

Xu Qiang wrote:
> I am trying to compile mozilla 1.7.8 from src in my FreeBSD 5.3
> (i386) PC. 
> 
> Yet, when I run the configure script, I met this error:
> -----------------------------------------------
> checking for libIDL - version >= 0.6.3... no
> *** The libIDL-config script installed by libIDL could not be found
> *** If libIDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the LIBIDL_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to libIDL-config.
> checking for orbit-config... no
> configure: error: libIDL not found.
>         libIDL 0.6.3 or higher is required.
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> But I already have had libIDL installed, the version is 0.8.4, isn't
> it higher than 0.6.3? 

It was actually a simple call to enable gtk2, i.e.:################################################
./configure --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
################################################

Reference: 
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2003-09/msg00380.php
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2003-09/msg00439.php
http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/expert/2003-09/msg00482.php (*)

Regards,
Xu Qiang