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I previous compiled and ran a tarball version of firefox

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This is what I did to compile firefox from scratch the

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I Ran Terminal.app; now I gotta get the source

 $ rm -rf moz_src
 $ mkdir moz_src
 $ cd moz_src
 $ mkdir learncompile
 $ cd learncompile/
 $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co mozilla/client.mk
 $ cd mozilla/
 $ make -f client.mk checkout MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
 checkout start: Mon Sep 17 17:34:54 EDT 2007
 ...
 checkout finish: Mon Sep 17 17:40:07 EDT 2007

Ok the source is retreived; now I gotta run configure my compile options See:Configs

 $ pwd
 /Users/coren/moz_src/learncompile/mozilla
 $ pico mozconfig-firefox

The following is what I put in the mozconfig-firefox file

 mk_add_options MOZ_BUILD_PROJECTS=browser
 mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
 mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/Users/coren/moz_ff_trunk/
 ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
 ac_add_options --disable-optimize
 ac_add_options --enable-debug
 ac_add_options --enable-static

Save; Exit

 $ export MOZCONFIG=~/moz_src/learncompile/mozilla/mozconfig-firefox
 $ make -f client.mk build

Now Mozilla compies; watch a bit of TV; oh sadness... a bug

 symbol _libVersionPoint used from dynamic library ../../../dist/bin/libnspr4.dylib(prvrsion.o) not from earlier dynamic library @executable_path/libplds4.dylib(plvrsion.o)
 symbol _libVersionPoint used from dynamic library ../../../dist/bin/libnspr4.dylib(prvrsion.o) not from earlier dynamic library @executable_path/libplc4.dylib(plvrsion.o)
 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
 make[7]: *** [gfxSurfaceRefCountTest] Error 1
 make[6]: *** [tools] Error 2
 make[5]: *** [tools] Error 2
 make[4]: *** [tools_tier_gecko] Error 2
 make[3]: *** [tier_toolkit] Error 2
 make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
 make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
 make: *** [build] Error 2