[CentOS] firefox 18

[James Pearson]

fred smith wrote:
> 
> the build process explicitly checks for python 2.7 or greater, so how
> does 2.6 succeed?
> 
> from the mach build tool:
> 
> 	#!/usr/bin/env python
> 	# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
> 	# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
> 	# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
> 
> 	from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals
> 
> 	import os
> 	import platform
> 	import sys
> 
> 	# Ensure we are running Python 2.7+. We put this check here so we generate a
> 	# user-friendly error message rather than a cryptic stack trace on module
> 	# import.
> 	if sys.version_info[0] == 2 and sys.version_info[1] < 7:
> 	    print('Python 2.7 or above is required to run mach.')
> 	    print('You are running', platform.python_version())
> 	    sys.exit(1)

Are you sure that is used?

As a test, I did a fresh install of CentOS 5 i386, installed 
epel-release and rpmforge-release from 
<http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm> 
and 
<http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm>

Then did:

yum groupinstall development-tools development-libs 
x-software-development gnome-software-development

yum install gcc44 gcc44-c++ python26 yasm-devel

Unpacked the firefox 18.0.1 source code, created the mozconfig file and 
ran 'make -f client.mk'

And it built fine ...

James Pearson