clueless GNOME bashing (was Re: [rescue] Mozilla Firefox)

[Mike Meredith]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:45:44 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>    Well actually I'm talking about that, AND the version that ships
>    with Redhat 9.

RH9 is apparently 2.2, which is still pretty old.

> Ok, fair enough...Can I download it and build it?  On something
> that 
> isn't a PC running Linux?  With Sun's compiler and not 
> crappy-RISC-code-generating GCC?

Given enough effort anything is possible :)

The easy way out is to go the pkg-get route (http://blastwave.org). I
took a quick look at compiling it with gcc and it looks possible
providing you avoid the XRENDER stuff. As to Sun's compiler, I've no
idea.