[CentOS] firefox 18

Fri Jan 25 17:45:45 UTC 2013
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

fred smith wrote:
>>
>>Are you sure that is used?
> 
> It is if you follow Mozilla's build instructions, which are to build with 
> "mach". I think that doing what you did will bypass mach. I tried it and
> got an error further into the build regarding some missing python stuff
> (but I haven't installed a newer python yet, so that's not unexpected.)
> 
> Is it also necessary to install the newer GCC that you used? I haven't yet
> noticed that listed in the build requirements...

I initially tried it with the stock CentOS 5 gcc (v4.1.2 based) - but it 
failed - however, I noticed from about:buildconfig from a mozilla.org 
v18 install that they used a v4.5 based gcc, so I tried the nearest 
version available on CentOS 5 - which is from the gcc44 RPM - and that 
worked

James Pearson