can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Timothy Smith wrote:

> ./configure gets
>
> *** 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.

[and ...]

> %locate libIDL-config-2
> /usr/local/bin/libIDL-config-2
> %which make
> /usr/bin/make
> %ls -lsa `which make`
> 224 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  206736 May 26  2004 /usr/bin/make
>
That looks right.  (Btw "/usr/local/bin/libIDL-config was installed by 
package ORBit-0.5.17_2" and that doesn't appear to be a dependency of 
firefox's.  I think the message from firefox install is just confusing 
the issue and it is libIDL-config-2 that's required).

More obvious questions.  You are doing the firefox install as root and 
root does have /usr/local/bin/ in it's path and libIDL-config-2 is 
executable?  As root check with: "which libIDL-config-2".

Just to confirm it working, I tried just configuring firefox and got:

checking for libIDL-2.0 >= 0.8.0... yes
checking LIBIDL_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/libIDL-2.0 
-I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include 
checking LIBIDL_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lIDL-2

I'm not sure what else to suggest.  make clean in firefox and try making 
again.

--Alex