Distributed compile of Firefox

Posted by Pepijn Oomen Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:38:00 GMT

It turns out rolling your own Firefox (and/or Thunderbird) really isn't that complicated, once you have the prerequisites in place. The biggest challenge is in creating your mozconfig, especially if you want an optimized universal build that can be run on both G5 and Mactel machines. Since I am always in for the extra challenge I also used distributed compiling, using distcc.

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