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configopts += --without-arm-thumb2
A recent POSIX Shell
A C++ compiler. GCC 3.4 or higher is recommended, or your platform's native C/C++ compiler.
Perl 5.6 or higher. Older perl versions may work if you upgrade File::Spec to version 0.8
GNU make 3.80 or higher. Other varieties of "make" will not work.
CVS 1.11 or higher
the GTK2 widget toolkit, version 2.10 or higher
libXt-devel for X11/Intrinsic.h, X11/Shell.h
libIDL 0.6.3 or higher Source snapshots are available from Mozilla via ftp. If using the RPMs, you'll need both the regular rpm and the -devel rpm. If you already have ORBit installed, then you do not need to install libIDL as ORBit bundles libIDL. You may need to install the ORBit-devel package if you use packages.
zip 2.3 (or higher)
freetype 2.1.0 (or higher)
fontconfig
pkg-config 0.9.0 (or higher)
dbus-1-glib-devel (Developer package for D-Bus/GLib bindings)
libasound2-dev (needed for Ogg support)
libnotify-dev
Yasm version 1.1.0 or newer.
autoconf-2.13 (requires GNU m4) - Autoconf 2.5x will not work. See bug 104642 for details.
I was wondering if anyone has any further news on this. I've done a quick search but can't seem to find any info.
The idea of updating the browserd gecko engine whilst retaining the current, closed source UI sounded quite appealing at the time. It could hopefully fix several rendering errors, increase HTML5 support (increasing important now adobe is finished with flash for mobiles) and, most importantly, close any security flaws that exist in the current version.