howto build firefox package for development?

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:06:05AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Alexander Sack (asac at debian.org) wrote:
> > 
> > While working on security issues for firefox 1.5.0.3 I ran into troubles to 
> > build firefox a second time without rebuilding source tree from diff and orig. 
> > 
> > In fact building the diff.gz after running clean fails because there are 
> > links which are not representable in diff.gz.
> > 
> > What's the right way to build and rebuild firefox from sid?
> 
> Upstream's clean target is really quite broken. If you do a build and
> then a clean you're not going to be able to rebuild. I've meant to
> look at this one for a while but have never gotten around to
> it. Patches welcome. 

when have you first seen this regression? 1.5 ... or even before? 
Are you sure that its upstreams related?


 - Alexander

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