                     README For FreeBSD Nightly Build
                           of Mozilla Firebird
                             ===============

The latest version of the nightly build should be availible from:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/nightly/latest-trunk/

The build is staticlly compiled on a PIII 650 running FreeBSD 4.8 with
GCC 2.95.4 stock, which comes with FreeBSD..

If there are an problems, it would be best to e-mail me at:
  web-mozillazine@silverwraith.com 
While I do try to keep up with the Mozillazine.org forums, I also have a
life (shock!) which frequently gets in the way :-)
So if you want to be SURE I get your message, e-mail it!

Some information, as posted to Mozillazine, regarding these nightly
releases for FreeBSD is below in the FAQ.


                  Frequently Asked Questions
		    ======================

Q: Have you thought about building it with dynamic linking, much like
for Linux?

A: Yeah I thought about dynamic linking but there are a couple of
advantages of static linking for nightly builds which I thought
outweighed any advantages dynamic linking:
  1. I can distribute builds which I feel confident will work more
     often.  There is less of a need to take into account the many
     different verions of softwares people have installed. This gives
     the disadvantage that we can't test against multiple compiles and
     versions of gtk etc, but has the advantage that we can more
     thoroughly test the features of the software on FreeBSD. Hopefully
     the other issues will be resolved in other builds.
  2. Almsot anyone should be able to drop the binaries in place and run,
     instead of spending an hour trying to figure out what dependencies
     they need to install first. This will also help narrowband users
     and/or those with slower computers for whom it takes longer to
     download and/or compile.
  3. I can optimize the compile of all the libraries and the software to
     something that should work for all, in a good fast manner. Many
     users install unoptimized compiles of graphics libraries, etc, and
     this should help their performance too. Unfortunately I don't
     optimize for things like SSE2, so people with those softwares might
     not see as much perfmanoce as they potentially could (but that's
     not much, and this IS a nightly...) 


Q: Care to tell me which version of GCC did you use?

A: gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]
