Unix: Status History

Start testing SeaMonekey mailnews: copy your 4.5 preferences.js file to /.mozilla/<profile>/prefs.js, start apprunner, things should automagically migrate over. (sspitzer)

[July 14, 1999]

M8 train is about to leave the station, please run this and file bugs.

NECKO is the new networking library, this should be landing soon (early M9)
and should fix a whole class of architectural-related problems.

[June 2, 1999]

Christopher Blizzard is working on a straight Xlib mozilla port; the build links and runs (./configure --enable-toolkit=xlib), send him mail if you're interested in helping.

Recent instability running apprunner; menus disappearing, resize broken. (bug 7417)

[May 29, 1999]

Alexander Larsson has contributed a GTK+ widget which can be used to easily embed gecko into any gtk application. (mozilla/webshell/embed/gtk) To build it you need to add the following configure flag to your mozilla build:

  ./configure --enable-gtk-mozilla

this will build the library and 2 sample tests. Many thanks to Alexander Larsson for contribution this very cool widget. (Ramiro)

[May 11, 1999]

xptcall needs a small bit of assembly code to do some stack magic; Intel, Sparc, and PPC have been done, other processors underway. Any given OS needs to explicitly turn XPConnect on, look in js/src/xpconnect/src/Makefile.in and xpcom/libxpt/xptcall/src/md/unix/Makefile.(John Bandhauer)

Ramiro fixed the form submission bug, now we can use bugzilla & stuff.(Ramiro)

[April 14, 1999]

Build now treats NSPR as part of the seamonkey tree. (Ramiro)

[April 12, 1999]

M4 is almost ready to go.

--enable-debug is now the default. (Ramiro)

[March 29, 1999]

Imagelib preformance greatly improved (Ramiro), apprunner image rendering time has been cut in half for some pages.

HP-UX portability fixes (Kipp)

AIX build is making progress, tinderbox on the way(Waqar)

Quantify & Purify are working with Solaris/gcc 2.7.2.3 (Brad,Bruce)

Printing works in viewer! (Don)

Slamm is still getting the kinks out of the new depend mechanism (slamm)

[Evening, March 15, 1999]

Thanks to Tom Pixley for the gtk focus/mouse-down fix (3553), clicking on links and toolbar buttons are working again.

(Mac, Linux. Win32?) Serious redraw problem still exists (3289), style changes triggered by the apprrunner UI are causing unnecessary reflows. You can see the redraws much better if you uncomment

#define NO_DOUBLE_BUFFER
in mozilla/view/src/nsViewManager.cpp. This is making things like toolbar button highlighting pathetically slow.

[March 15, 1999]

glib/gtk+ 1.2 is now required to build Mozilla.

We've migrated from {MOZILLA_HOME, .netscape} to {MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME, .mozilla}

[March 10, 1999]

Thanks to Bruce Mitchener and Ramiro Estrugo for getting Solaris/gcc 2.7.x/purify working! Look for Bruce's purify reports in mozilla.patches.

Steve Lamm has greatly improved the Unix build system; see slamm link below, a lot of autoconf reaming.

[Sat Feb 20] Apprunner is in fairly good shape. Linux glibc bug found, fix posted in mozilla.unix and should show up in the build docs. GTK resize fix got checked in!

mcafee@netscape.com

Last modified: Tue Aug 24 15:40:15 PDT 1999