Re: Mozilla on i686 uClibc 0.9.24

(I'm replying to two posts at once).

>>I would like to use Mozilla as the browser front end on a new project.

What kind of frontend? In many cases (especially in low-memory 
environments, you can embed the gecko rendering engine with a simple 
native-gtk FE, which is what minimo does. Minimo runs fairly well in 32 
or 64 MB RAM).

>>I have manged to get Mozilla & Firefox 1.6 to compile and install
>>binaries but they will not run (with about 90M free RAM).  From strace
>>and gdb analysis it appears that there are serious memory issues.

firefox shouldn't have any problems running in 90M RAM, and neither 
should mozilla unless you start loading many tabs or use mailnews a lot. 
However, the codebase doesn't tolerate OOM errors very well. If you're 
running a system without VM and a hard memory-cap, you might see some 
strangeness.

>>Which is the best Mozilla distribution to start with?

The "stable branch" is now 1.7, and I would recommend building firefox 
from the MOZILLA_1_7_BRANCH.

> are still some rough edges in FireFox (like target code which is
> compiled with the host compiler by accident), so I hoepe that there will

Have you found/filed bugs on these problems? cross-compiling NSS is a 
known headache, but pretty much everything else should cross-compile 
decently. Please cc me on any bugs which you think need attention.

--BDS