A Cute Drawing

My little sister likes drawing a lot. She often draws sketches of girls with long hairs, dogs and flowers with eyes and mouth. Today, however, she shared with me her vision of universe, a world full of weird looking monsters and candy-shaped planets. So I borrowed it to make my diary cuter!
The work is copyrighted by Shiva Behabadi but if you like to use it, feel free to do so under the terms of Creative Common Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License

Firefox 3.5 on Lenny

Firefox 3.5 is out finally again with no amd64 built ready for download. I didn't want to wait to see if someone is going to package it for Debian Lenny So I decided to compile it from source. Surprisingly, the compilation was smooth and the improved version of my favorite web browser was ready in no time.

I needed these packages to install before compiling Firefox for my Lenny setup:

aptitude install make gcc cvs libgtk2.0-dev libxt-dev libidl-dev \
  libzip-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig-dev pkg-config \
  libdbus-1-dev libasound2-dev libnotify-dev autoconf2.13

After downloading and extracting the source from Mozilla website, I created .mozconfig file in the root of source directory containing these options:

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2
ac_add_options --disable-tests

Then the following commands from the root of source tree will do the magic:

export MOZCONFIG=.mozconfig
./configure
make
make -C browser/installer/

Upon the completion, Firefox 3.5 tarball and accompanying language-pack will be placed in dist directory. The tar file can be extracted anywhere and used without installation.

You can find a comprehensive build documentation at Mozilla Developer Center.

Links:
Build Documentation
Firefox 3.5 Source