This build was produced on a solaris2.8 platform. If you encounter any problem with the package, you may contact Leon Sha This build was made from the FIREFOX_1_5rc3_RELEASE tag in the CVS repository. Installation: * Goto the directory where you want to install this build. Make sure there is no firefox directory there. Just recover the old firefox directory is not suggested. Unpack the package. $ bunzip2 .tar.bz2 $ tar xvf .tar Then go to the install directory and run ./firefox. If you want to just type "firefox" to start the release, you can add it to PATH of setup a symbol link to /usr/bin. $export PATH=:$PATH - or - #ln -s /firefox /usr/bin/firefox * Executables are dynamically linked against GTK. For your convenience, the executables have been linked with: -R/usr/sfw/lib -R/opt/sfw/lib -R/usr/local/lib This will automatically reference the GTK libraries if they have been installed from the Solaris Companion CD (http://sunfreeware.com). Please note that Sun Studio 8 compiler was used for the build, i.e., don't use GTK 1.2 shared objects built with GCC. * If you get a lot of warnings on startup like Gdk-WARNING **: shmat failed! then you may want to increase your shared memory segment sizes. On Solaris 8, you can add the following lines to /etc/system and reboot: * Set for libgtk shared memory usage set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 8388608 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100 * If you get an error on startup like ld.so.1: ./firefox-bin: fatal: relocation error: file ./firefox-bin: symbol fmod: referenced symbol not found. You may need to add Math Library (libm) patch. Solaris 5.8 sparc: 111721 Solaris 5.9 sparc: 111722 Solaris 5.8 i386: 112757 Solaris 5.9 i386: 111728 * If you just can not start up or encount some unexpect crash, try to do this. Back up your "$HOME/.mozilla/firefox"/"$HOME/.mozilla"/"$HOME/.thunderbird. Remove this directory. Start up the application without import anything. Build instruction: You can get the instruction here. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Build_Documentation I just list some special thing for solaris builds here. * Set the build environment export CC="" export CXX="" export PERL="" export PERL5="" export CFLAGS="-xlibmil" export CXXFLAGS="-xlibmil -xlibmopt -features=tmplife -norunpath" export LDFLAGS="-R'\$\$ORIGIN:\$\$ORIGIN/..' -R/usr/sfw/lib -R/opt/sfw/lib -R/usr/local/lib" The following tools/libraries were used for compilation: cc: Sun C 5.5 Patch 112760-07 2004/02/03 CC: Sun C++ 5.5 Patch 113817-06 2004/01/29 GNU Make 3.79 perl-5.6.1 * My .mozconfig file . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-xO3" ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --disable-auto-deps ac_add_options --enable-official-branding mk_add_options BUILD_OFFICIAL=1 mk_add_options MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1