building Mozilla Spider Monkey on Ubuntu

Question

Hi. I'm trying to build spider monkey on ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). However, when I run autoconf2.13 on the js/src directory, it tells me there is no configure.in file. I can't just do the usual ./configure > make > sudo make install , either. What's up with it?

Answer 1

Same thing happened here. I think that they definitely could benefit from an build instructions update.

Here is what I had to do...

Download the latest source via mercurial - run the following and then go get some coffee (you make need to install Mercurial if not already install - repo version works fine):

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/js

Then I had to cd in: cd js/src

Then you can pick up where the Mozilla instructions lead you:

autoconf2.13
./configure
make
sudo make install

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

The command given in the previous answer results in 404 Not Found. I used:

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central

which probably does the whole tree. And 1 cup of coffee will not be enough. Perhaps 3 pots, it takes agggggeeeesssss.