Mozilla builds 4.10 vs. 5.2

Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD at keyslapper.org
Sun Aug 1 06:49:50 PDT 2004


On 07/31/04 07:56 AM, Joshua Tinnin sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:49 am, Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD at keyslapper.org> 
> wrote:
> > Hey all.  I'm finishing up my RELENG_5_2 box, hoping to swap it in
> > tomorrow, and I'm a little confused.
> >
> > Mozilla 1.7 seems to build just fine in 4.10, but claims to be broken
> > in 5.2.  It seems to have a problem with Calendar support.
> >
> > While poking through the ports directory, I noticed that there are 2
> > index files (INDEX and INDEX-5).  Now I haven't really researched this
> > yet, so feel free to point out the FM if that's discussed somewhere.
> >
> > My question though, is whether anyone has managed to get Mozilla
> > building without hacking up the Makefile (which still only gives the
> > Mozilla browser, nothing else).
> 
> I'm running 5.2.1 and built Mozilla 1.7.1 very recently. It built and works 
> fine, and I didn't mess with the Makefile, but I don't use the calendar in 
> Mozilla.

I've updated my ports, and I still get just the browser - but only if
I hack the Makefile.  I've taken all Mozilla configs out of my
make.conf too.

I get a config screen on 4.10, but not on 5.2.1.  Is there some
package that is required to display the config?

Lou
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