Re: building Icecat and .mozconfig

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hello,

Mithat Konar <address@hidden> writes:

> In the process of building IceCat 3.6.4 under Debian Squeeze, I noticed the 
> bundled .mozconfig is not very short. I want to change some configs in my 
> future 
> builds (e.g., --enable-system-cairo because I like the font rendering 
> better), 
> but before doing so I am wondering a couple things:
>
> 1) Where did the original configs come from? The reason I ask is that there 
> are 
> a number of options in .mozconfig that are not listed at 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Configuring_Build_Options (which itself is 
> not 
> very well documented) so I have no idea what some of the options are really 
> doing.

The reason is that some of them probably don't exist upstream anymore and the
IceCat file wasn't updated.



> 2) Which options in particular should I *not* change to maintain IceCat's 
> freeness? In other words, changing which options will result in Icecat no 
> longer 
> being free?

I think these ones are enough:

ac_add_options --with-distribution-id=org.gnu.gnuzilla
ac_add_options --with-branding=browser/branding/unofficial
ac_add_options --disable-official-branding

Cheers,
Giuseppe