Re: [Indlinux-telugu] instructions on doing an indic-enabled build for firefox

[Nagarjuna G. <nag...@gn...>]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:36:33PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On 5/20/05, Sunil Mohan <su...@at...> wrote:
> > On ???????????????, 2005-05-20 at 19:24 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > >
> 
> > >
> > > 2) If I am using Debian GNU/linux, do I need to fetch patches from
> > > Fedora CVS? or are there distribution independent patches available?
> > 
> > You can get the patches from Fedora CVS even if you are building for
> > Debian GNU/Linux. Independent patches are available I assume in the
> > bugzilla for the bugs where they are trying to resolve the complex text
> > layout problems.
> > 
> > The firefox Indic build we have put on my site works for Debian (I use
> > Debian). Oh, there is a small problem however, one has to delete the
> > libpango* files from the installation directory after the installation.
> > Short explanation is that the pango shipped with the build does not work
> > with latest gtk+ which is on Debian Unstable.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply sunil.
> 
> Would it be too much to ask your team to provide a .deb file
> repository which are "ready to go" and apt-gettable besides the
> .tar.gz file? That would be very useful. The building procedure seems
> daunting enough and providing .deb files would make the life easier
> for the lazy users like me. Let me know what you think?
> 

the ubuntu distro already ships patched build of firefox in their
regular distro.  you can aptget from their site.  

Nagarjuna