CALL FOR TEST: Updates to pixmap, cairo, poppler, and firefox
3.0!
Jeremy Messenger
mezz7 at cox.net
Thu Jun 19 17:32:24 UTC 2008
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:28:05 -0500, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:54:58 -0500, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 14:47 +0200, Rene Ladan wrote:
>>> 2008/6/19 Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com>:
>>> > On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 16:39 -0400, Naram Qashat wrote:
>>> >> Well, I tried to build Firefox 3 after updating all the other
>>> ports, it gets to
>>> >> this point and fails:
>>> >>
>>> [...big ugly error...]
>>> >
>>> > This is because it is picking up the installed firefox headers
>>> > in /usr/local/include/firefox rather than the ones as part of
>>> firefox3.
>>>
>>> I could install firefox3 while firefox2 was still installed.
>>> Firefox3 runs fine, the only thing that is missing so far is that it
>>> doesn't
>>> pick up the www/xpi-* ports (fasterfox, gmail), even not after
>>> reinstalling
>>> the xpi-* ports. It does pick up mplayerplug-in, java, and
>>> swfdec-plugin.
>>> swfdec runs fine too.
>>>
>>> > (btw, whats the protocol for replying to these mails - should I strip
>>> > off all but one list? What list is the 'important' one?)
>>> >
>>> I would guess freebsd-gnome@ and Jeremy Messenger
>
> Yeah, that's correct.
>
>>> One other thing: is it expected that you don't see the marcusmerge
>>> script
>>> do a cvs update when invoked as 'sh marcusmerge -m ports-stable' and
>>> the ports-stable directory already exists? Or is that because there
>>> aren't
>>> any changes yet?
>>>
>>> Rene
>>
>> To update what marcusmerge merges, you can either go to the ports-stable
>> folder, and do a manual cvs up, and rerun marcusmerge - or possibly run
>> marcusmerge -m ports-stable -U (I guess, I used cvs up).
>>
>> I'm not convinced that it is firefox2 that causes the build problems.
>> The problem file for me was /usr/local/include/jspubtd.h , which I think
>> was part of spidermonkey (standalone mozilla javascript). Firefox puts
>> jspubtd.h in /usr/local/include/firefox .
>
> Yes, I agree with you about that I doubt it's firefox that causes this
> issue. I think it's more like spidermonkey. It's both firefox3 and
> spidermonkey bug. The spidermonkey shouldn't be put its header files in
> /usr/local/include since there is many same headers in firefox2,
> firefox3, mozilla, more gecko craps. As for the firefox3, it picks up by
> -I/usr/local/include. It needs to reorder the -I. I will have to take a
> look in source and get back to you guys. Thanks for report!
I can reproduce it when I have installed spidermonkey (already have
firefox2 installed for months). I have committed a fix
(firefox3/files/patch-layout_generic_Makefile.in).
Cheers,
Mezz
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> Firefox 3 is very strange. Even when built, it doesn't work correctly
>> for me. I've only tried a few things so far, but for one, the address
>> bar doesn't seem to work properly, it doesn't change when you change tab
>> and it doesn't change when you follow a link. I'll try rebuilding..
>>
>> Tom
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