Mac Forum / Applications / Firefox / Mozilla / March 2007

Hey All,

I was wondering if anyone could point me to the error of my ways.  I'm
trying to build firefox on a MAC (10.4) and I cannot successfully get
it to build.  Reading the build page
http://www.mozilla.org/build/mac.html I have installed all the correct
developer tools (I believe) such as the apple developer tools, Fink.  I
sourced the init.sh script in my login script, fetched and installed
orbit, orbit-dev glib, zip, and unzip, installed the shared menus
framework, installed pkg-config, installed quicktime 7 sdk.  I noticed
in a few other threads that mentioned the danger of using gcc 4, thus
I'm using gcc 3

My first questions is whether or not I need to install any of the tools
under the unix-builds link.  I am familiar with doing unix builds, but
I don't believe this is necessary, is it?

I'm not clear on is where I can find instructions on how to configure
the tarball for the mac.  At the top of the page, it says that the
instructions are for using autoconf tools.  Does this mean that I can
do a ./configure then a make?  What about the .mozconfig file?  do I
need one of these?  What should the settings be?  My goal is to
replicate a firefox build.

Thanks,
Matt