Mozilla source or install binary ?

[MADHATter7]

I'm thinking of downloading the source code for Mozilla and compiling myself. Or, is it a better thing (at this point) to just download a nightly version ?

I have run the nightly versions before, just not on Debian. However, I have not ever tried to compile the source code !

BTW, what is the preferred method for the Grasshopers here at LNO ? (I would guess the source)

Any pointers/suggestions/pitfalls ??

[Bernd]

I have tried to compile it myself on my athlon 500, but after several hours of compiling and no sign that it will be ready soon I stopped it. And I think before it would have been ready the next nightly build would have been available.

Bernd

[This message has been edited by Bernd (edited 01 December 2000).]

[MADHATter7]

Several hours on an Athlon 500 ?!?!? That translates to (well, I don't know) DAYS on a P-133.

I guess I'll download the nightly then...

Thanks for the tip !

[PLBlaze]

Well, the nightly builds are fine but if you'd choose to compile mozilla from the cvs source you can have very optimized build eg. test-disable,debug-disable and more...and of course you can build it for your mcpu and march values.

As Bernard pointed it takes quite some time to compile the source (~220mb from cvs).On my pIII600 it's about 2hrs and 15min under full load (setiathome is running all the time)...and i do it every week http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif.

[Bernd]

PLBlaze,

you compiled it within 2.25 hours? I guess I waited at least 4 hours before I stopped the compiling. Perhaps I should try it again (last trying was with M17).

Bernd

[PLBlaze]

Bernd,

I belive so i did...you can use a nice command line utility called time to see how much time it takes to perform tasks, eg;

time mozilla will tell you how long it took to start the browser.Output looks like this:

real 0m8.799s
user 0m3.870s
sys 0m0.170s