Questions about building from source tarball

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 02:55:56PM -0400, William Park wrote

> I used to compile Firefox.  Then, I downloaded already compiled tarball
> and install in /usr/local.  Now, I just install distro package
> (Slackware, in my case).  So, try pre-compiled tarball.  I think, you can
> install it anywhere, as long as "firefox" is symlinked in the usual
> place, like /usr/local/bin.

  I want to tweak the options for my machine.  Not just for optimized
compile, but what modules firefox/seamonkey builds with.  This is well
beyond even what Gentoo offers.  And Gentoo's version is not uptodate.

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