Building Firefox Round 2

Things are better the second time around? Rewind 8 months, I was struggling with a debug build of Firefox, nothing was working right. Well, the hint may have been in what I was compiling. I eventually got a build working, but looking back at that, I was building the wrong thing, I was building from cvs when it seems I should have been using Mercurial. Ugh. Makes some amount of sense, but looking at MDC I can see why I thought I was doing the right thing:

"Those doing active development can check out the latest source using CVS"

Which seems to contradict other information on the page. I'm always hesitant with editing this stuff; there are smarter people than me working on this, maybe it's right. I'm pretty darn sure it's wrong.

So, I've bought a new hard drive, installed the latest OS I favour, and starting fresh. I'm building from Mercurial looking at jbostons' wiki content on the build process for Ubuntu. and checking against MDC's build options info. It's been lovely. Here's some feedback I certainly didn't get last time:

checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for sys/int_types.h... no
checking for GL/glx.h... no
configure: error: Can't find header GL/glx.h for WebGL (install mesa-common-dev (Ubuntu), mesa-libGL-devel (Fedora), or Mesa (SuSE))
*** Fix above errors and then restart with "make -f client.mk build"
make[1]: *** [configure] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/Projects/mozilla/src'
make: *** [/home/matt/Projects/mozilla/src/ff-debug/Makefile] Error 2

What? It couldn't find a header and told me what to install? We are certainly living in the future.

sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev

Running the debug build has also been a joy. I don't remember getting this much feedback at the console last time, I'm not entirely sure it's all good news:

++DOCSHELL 0xb11bbac0 == 5
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(browserChrome) failed: file /home/matt/Projects/mozilla/src/docshell/base/nsDocShell.cpp, line 9888
WARNING: Something wrong when creating the docshell for a frameloader!: file /home/matt/Projects/mozilla/src/content/base/src/nsFrameLoader.cpp, line 1017
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv, rv) failed with result 0x80004005: file /home/matt/Projects/mozilla/src/content/base/src/nsFrameLoader.cpp, line 1041
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv, rv) failed with result 0x80004005: file /home/matt/Projects/mozilla/src/content/base/src/nsFrameLoader.cpp, line 197
pldhash: for the table at address 0xb11bbee8, the given entrySize of 48 probably favors chaining over double hashing.
++DOCSHELL 0xb11bbe80 == 6

But it's better the second time around.