[Buildroot] [PATCH] libpng: bump version and add apng support (required by firefox)

Stefan Fröberg stefan.froberg at petroprogram.com
Sat Aug 11 10:54:53 UTC 2012


Hello Thomas

11.8.2012 9:50, Thomas Petazzoni kirjoitti:
> Hello,
>
> Le Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:22:33 +0300,
> Stefan Fröberg <stefan.froberg at petroprogram.com> a écrit :
>
>> Not to worry, the patches are actually very small and I was surprised
>> how little I had to change code.
> Great!
>
>> But the actual build process was very ... messy ... and i had spend most
>> of the last four months of (and lot's of hair tearing)
>> finding just the right combination of build switches to make the damn
>> thing compile and actually run.
> Yeah, I believe you that building Firefox is certainly not a piece of
> cake. Congrats to you for working on this!
>
>> Firefox extensions work now and It even plays YouTube videos with gnash
>> plugin. Yay! :-)
> Woh! I presume it only works under X.org, right?

Yes but there is also an configure option
"--enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2-dfb" for directfb and
whitch I have not tested at all and I remember that I have seen
somewhere in the net a way to
build firefox to use just DirectFB + Gtk2 and no Xorg at all.

There is also "--enable-mobile-optimize" configure switch whitch I
suspect will only affect building for Android phone
(at least theres are lot's of   #ifdef ANDROID stuff in the code)

So that switch combined with directfb could make a really small firefox
binary, at least for phones.

>> So the biggest files are firefox.mk, which I have commented extensively
>> so that nobody has to go for this trouble again, and mozconfig file.
> How complicated do you feel the Firefox version bumps will be,
> considering the work you had to do for a specific version?
>
>> I also have added optional feature that when enabled will try to make
>> Firefox as privacy enhanced as possible
>> (using NoScript  and AdblockPlus extension plus my own about:config
>> settings)
>>
>> If the yasm package patch and that little cairo option addition patch
>> are both okay for you I will then send one final patch (few little
>> changes needed to sqlite.mk)
>> and then im ready to send the actual firefox.
> I will try to catch up a bit on my Buildroot backlog today, hoping that
> the 3G connection will be more cooperative than the other days.

Great!

Stefan

> Best regards,
>
> Thomas



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