Port request: Songbird

[Michael Johnson]

On 3/15/07, Luchezar Petkov <luchezar.petkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Afaik, the Makefile problems can be solved using GNU's coreutils [1].
> I'll be *very* thankful if you port Songbird to FreeBSD one day.
> Thanks in advance, and remember that if you need testers - I'm in. :-)



nah, it's not that easy because the coreutils in ports prefixes everything
with g
and the non-prefixed utils are hardcoded in. I'll start porting it very
soon, I tried
it on my mac the other day and it's a pretty nice little program. =)

Michael

Thank you for your replies.
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=358
>
> On 3/15/07, Michael Johnson <ahze at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 3/12/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org > wrote:
> > > On 3/12/07, Luchezar Petkov <luchezar.petkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello, guys.
> > > > I'd like to request a port for the Songbird media player. I know
> that
> > > > the FreeBSD GNOME team is trying not only to port GNOME to FreeBSD,
> > > > but to make FreeBSD better for the desktop. And Songbird is one of
> the
> > > > best open source desktop media players out there for sure. As I am
> > > > just a desktop user, I can't help with porting, but if you need
> > > > testers - I'm in.
> > >
> > > You can expect linux-songbird once we get our linux
> > > compat updated to fedora core 5. As for a native
> > > version, you'll probably have to beg ahze, he's the
> > > Mozilla-man :-)
> > >
> >
> > I looked at it once or twice.. It's doable, but there's a good bit
> > hard-coded Linuxisms in songbirds Makefiles that will have to be
> > patched. I've seen a patch on the mailing list once for FreeBSD
> > but it's outdated now.
> >
> > Michael
> >
>
>
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