Minotaur on Linux
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Minotaur on Linux
Hey folks,
I just wanted to keep You informed I successfully built a minotaur on a gentoo linux system tonight. It seems a bit slow, but that is probably because I didn't specify the right optimization options for my little system. I have to rebuild anyway, because I forgot to enable Xft.
I did not use Mozilla's MailNews component since 1.2.1 days. Currently I use kmail at home, but I think I can switch to the Minotaur soon....
Regards,
oliof
I just wanted to keep You informed I successfully built a minotaur on a gentoo linux system tonight. It seems a bit slow, but that is probably because I didn't specify the right optimization options for my little system. I have to rebuild anyway, because I forgot to enable Xft.
I did not use Mozilla's MailNews component since 1.2.1 days. Currently I use kmail at home, but I think I can switch to the Minotaur soon....
Regards,
oliof
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minotaur build mini-HOWTO?
Did you do this by simply following the build instructions at <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/minotaur/build.html">mozilla.org</a>? If not, a mini-howto about how you did it would be most helpful. ebuilds (minotaur-cvs and minotaur-bin whenever its available) would also be much appreciated by other Gentoo users
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minotaur-cvs ebuild
Hi,
In the first run I just followed the build instructions using the cvs repository, which worked fine for a first shot. Then, I wanted an ebuild...
I just modified the phoenix-cvs ebuild so it builds minotaur from cvs. I managed to get minotaur built on my machine with it. It does not install /usr/bin/minotaur, though, and putting a link from /usr/lib/minotaur/minotaur to /usr/bin yields an error, even with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME explicitly set:
[hollow@oliof minotaur] $ MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/minotaur \ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/minotaur /usr/lib/minotaur/minotaur
/usr/lib/minotaur/minotaur-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/minotaur/minotaur-bin: undefined symbol: NS_CurrentThread
[hollow@oliof minotaur] $
Is there any way to post files in this forum?
Regards,
oliof
In the first run I just followed the build instructions using the cvs repository, which worked fine for a first shot. Then, I wanted an ebuild...
I just modified the phoenix-cvs ebuild so it builds minotaur from cvs. I managed to get minotaur built on my machine with it. It does not install /usr/bin/minotaur, though, and putting a link from /usr/lib/minotaur/minotaur to /usr/bin yields an error, even with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME explicitly set:
[hollow@oliof minotaur] $ MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/minotaur \ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/minotaur /usr/lib/minotaur/minotaur
/usr/lib/minotaur/minotaur-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/minotaur/minotaur-bin: undefined symbol: NS_CurrentThread
[hollow@oliof minotaur] $
Is there any way to post files in this forum?
Regards,
oliof
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RE: minotaur-cvs ebuild
So minotaur worked when you built it by hand, but not from the ebuild?
You're asking the wrong person about this forum. Notice your first post ever was a couple hours before mine... Anyway, I don't think you can post files to this forum. The best thing to do at this point would probably be post your ebuild either into the Gentoo forums and go from there.
You're asking the wrong person about this forum. Notice your first post ever was a couple hours before mine... Anyway, I don't think you can post files to this forum. The best thing to do at this point would probably be post your ebuild either into the Gentoo forums and go from there.
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Linux builds of Minotaur
I hope to get a linux version of minotaur up on ftp.mozilla.org/pub/minotaur in the very near future.
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ebuild is working now
Hi,
after taking out some of the ebuild's magic for phoenix, I now have a working ebuild. I will commit it to gentoo today, after cleaning it up a bit. Those who want it faster - just send me a message.
Regards,
oliof
after taking out some of the ebuild's magic for phoenix, I now have a working ebuild. I will commit it to gentoo today, after cleaning it up a bit. Those who want it faster - just send me a message.
Regards,
oliof
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others not forgotten
Hey Laurentbon,
I can only provide what I am having at home. Feel free to build minotaur and a slackware pkg (-:
And no, You should not use gentoo, You should use what fits You best. That's why we're doing all this, no?
I submitted my ebuild to gentoo's bugzilla (bug #18683). If anyone is ready to spit flaming death at me, there You'll find the reason to do so.
Regards,
oliof
I can only provide what I am having at home. Feel free to build minotaur and a slackware pkg (-:
And no, You should not use gentoo, You should use what fits You best. That's why we're doing all this, no?
I submitted my ebuild to gentoo's bugzilla (bug #18683). If anyone is ready to spit flaming death at me, there You'll find the reason to do so.
Regards,
oliof
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minotaur packages
Laurentbon: I wasn't suggesting that we only do Gentoo ebuilds for minotaur. That's just what oliof mentioned, and I'm a Gentoo user too, so that's what I focused on. I'd love to see everyone interested in minotaur build packages for their favorite distro. Why stop at that? How about get it up and running on different OSs? MacOS/X, *BSD, VMS, and whatever else is out there that could run minotaur... Maybe this will turn into a "What did you get minotaur to build on?" thread.
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I have a Minotaur build for RedHat 8 from last night, but I'm currently rebuilding to add XFT support.
Then I'll upload it later today and give the URL.
EDIT: Damn, I forgot to disable-debug and ended up with a 240 MB /bin directory. No way I post that, so I'll just rebuild with disable-debug and post the file even later.
Then I'll upload it later today and give the URL.
EDIT: Damn, I forgot to disable-debug and ended up with a 240 MB /bin directory. No way I post that, so I'll just rebuild with disable-debug and post the file even later.
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Redhat build
I'm currently working on a redhat 8 build and will post a tar.gz somewhere once it is ready
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What do You mean by 'missing gtk support?' You build minotaur against either of gtk-1.2 or gtk-2 on linux, depending on Your installation and bravado (gtk2 builds are rumoured to have stability issues). If You meant to write missing xft support(support for antialiased fonts) - this is disabled in the default minotaur build because it's not available with all linux distributions yet.
You want to look at
http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php ... x4132.html
for the package building instructions for slackware.
and at
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/minotaur/build.html
for instructions on how to build the program itself.
Regards,
Harald
You want to look at
http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php ... x4132.html
for the package building instructions for slackware.
and at
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/minotaur/build.html
for instructions on how to build the program itself.
Regards,
Harald