On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:18:47AM +0800, [email protected] wrote: > I did not build Firefox 42.0 but I found the following statement in the > Firefox's Linux Prerequisites page: > (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Linux_Prerequisites) > > As of Firefox 42, the GTK3 widget toolkit, version 3.4 or higher > > So, does GTK3 become a "required" dependence for Firefox now?
Sorry for the delay in replying to this - I saw the post when I was not at a desktop, then forgot until I was checking the book updates from the last 10 days. I did not look at that link, but if it says that then it appears to be mistaken. My 42.0 logs show the normal GTK2 definitions, with no mentions of either GTK3 or gtk+-3. I have now used ldd on firefox and all of its .so lib, only gtk+-2 versions showed (I do have gtk+-3 installed by the time I build firefox). I remember that fedora were keen on building firefox with gtk+-3 : a few months ago, they still had some bugs about that. I tried it once, sometime last year - it built, but at that time I found it unreadable (missing text, perhaps missing icons, also text the same colour as the menu background). So, I am guessing that it *can* now be built with gtk+-3 with the expectation that it will work ok (probably need to rename any existing ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default directory). ĸen -- Il Porcupino Nil Sodomy Est! (if you will excuse my latatian) aka "The hedgehog song" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
