Firefox 1.0.7 build problems: Can anyone confirm?

[Mike Hunter]

On Sep 26, "Anish Mistry" wrote:

> On Monday 26 September 2005 11:08 pm, bsdlogical wrote:
> > I'm having build issues with Firefox 1.0.7. Here is the output:
> >
> > In file included from nsDNSService2.h:40,
> >                  from nsDNSService2.cpp:38:
> > nsHostResolver.h:95: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of
> > `PRAddrInfo' with no type
> > nsHostResolver.h:95: error: expected `;' before '*' token
> > nsHostResolver.h: In member function `PRBool
> > nsHostRecord::HasResult() const':
> > nsHostResolver.h:99: error: `addr_info' undeclared (first use this
> This has been discussed here before, check the archives.
> >
> > Any suggestions? This is the first time I've tried compiling 1.0.7.
> > Currently I run 1.0.6 with no problems. Thanks,
> >
> > bsdlogical
> You need to rebuild devel/nspr

I came up against this recently and did find this suggestion and got past
it.

I don't mean to troll, but is there a reason why the port can't have a
proper dependency on the correct version of nspr?  I'm just curious
whether there's a problem with the port of if this problem isn't
avoidable.

Mike