552417 - This switch `--with-user-appdir=' doesn't work, remove it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 298784

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Bee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Firefox 3.6

Hi everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> --with-user-appdir=DIR  Set user-specific appdir (default=.mozilla)

If i build firefox, using this switch in the configure: --with-user-appdir=.bee
the folder created in my home still have the name ".mozilla"!!!! as in `~/.mozilla' !!!!!

Wasn't it supposed to change into ".bee"?!!!!!!

This is the source code i'm using ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/source/firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2 !!!!!!!!

bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~bee!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://honeybeenet.altervista.org

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

No, that configure flag doesn't do anything. We should remove it.

Comment 2

[Bee]

AHHH!!!!!!!! That's why!!!!! though it displays in the `./configure --help', it doesn't work anymore!!!!!! WELL OK!!!

BTW, i think that, instead of removing it from the `./configure --help'; it would be nice, if it was possible to make it work!!!!! I would like to change the name of that folder, yet not really to change it to '.bee' as i did in my experiments, but to change it to "BEE" (or "MOZILLA")!!! Without the dot at the beginning of the name, it's because i would like if it was possible to have that folder showed and not hidden!! (yeah ls -a shows it and also Nautilus shows it if you press ctrl+h, but i meant "always visible as a normal file, every time, everywhere")!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!

bye!!!!!!!!!!!
~bee!!!!!!