Re: [gNewSense-users] Compiling icecat 3.5.7 on Lemote Yeeloong mips metad

[Sam Geeraerts]

Niklas Cholmkvist schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the icecat source from: 
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.5.7/icecat-3.5.7.tar.bz2 . (would
> it be better if I had downloaded a .deb source package from
> anywhere?)
>
> I've looked at a similar thread at the gnewsense-dev mailing list
> called "RE: compiling icecat on 
> mips"(http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00579.html)
> and followed some instructions from there, downloading dependencies
> for the compiling procedure. I also downloaded the patch
> xulrunner-mips-n32.patch and put it in the "source root"
> directory(/home/myusername/src/icecat-3.5.7./xulrunner-mips-n32.patch).
>  Maybe I should have done anything else with the file? I didn't know
> so that's where I put it.

Patches should be applied with the 'patch' program. In your case it's 
probably 'patch < xulrunnner-mips-n32.patch', although in that thread 
Zhang Le says that for gNS "the O32 patch is enough" so you should be 
using that.