[tor-talk] Aurora only build

[AK]

Actually, the Tor Browser bundle is built from Firefox Portable binaries.

>From README.dev:
> Using build-scripts/Makefile it is possible to create a working USB
> Tor bundle. It's limitations include:
>  - It uses the FirefoxPortable binaries

However, they do say you can build a custom version of Firefox from source
and I guess you can use a similar build procedure to apply those patches in
src/current-patches to the firefox c++ files. It's still pretty unclear,
but I am testing it out, and I'll let you know how it turns out.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Andrew Lewman <andrew at torproject.org>wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:05 -0700
> AK <akarmn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So are you telling me that standard Firefox depends on closed source
> > binaries as well? I don't care about how free the license is. I'm
> > talking about whether it can be built completely from source code.
>
> I suggest starting with the source,
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git.  We build tor browser
> bundle from source code, so can you.  In fact, we encourage people to
> build their own.
>
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