Subj : Re: Building thread-safe SpiderMonkey for Win32
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com>
Date : Tue Mar 16 2004 01:15 pm

Bob Kline wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, Benjamin.  I tried this, but that approach 
> seems to be built around the assumption that one is building inside a 
> tree that includes the entire Mozilla source tree:
> 
> ...
> cat: ../../dist/WINNT5.0_DBG.OBJ/nspr/Version: No such file or directory
> ...
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Did I miss some instructions for building SpiderMonkey independently of 
> Mozilla (which is what js.mak appears to be intended for, but without a 
> thread-safe version)?

To provide more background for my question here, I read the following at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr: "In general, the NSPR team would 
prefer that you use a binary release of NSPR, especially if your 
interest is as a user of the API only."  Even if I were to unpack nspr 
into a location (../../dist/....) which conformed to the relative path 
in which the gmake rules are looking, it still wouldn't work, because 
there is no Version file or directory included with the binary release 
packages for NSPR.

Bob

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