firefox buid error..

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Dec 6 13:42:53 PST 2005


On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:31:05PM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> kalin mintchev wrote:
> > hi all...
> >
> >trying to build firefox firefox-1.5 from ports.
> >machine: 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug 15 20:16:14 EDT 2005
> >upgraded www ports last night and today. mozilla port was updated today
> >agian. port build stops at the same place. pkg_add -r brings down 1.0.3. i
> >had 1.0.6...  anybody knows where to get the working one?
> >thanks...
> 
> Don't know about the build problem but if you want the latest packages 
> set PACKAGESITE in make.conf
> 
> eg from memory (on another machine I don't have access to)
> 
> PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/
> I can't remember if you need the / on the end, it either works with but 
> not without or vice versa
> 
> 
> This works in 6, I presume it works in 5.4. It's mentioned in pkg_add(1)

The firefox package still wasn't buildable on the last package run, so
no updated packages are yet available.  This upgrade was handled badly
in general :(

Kris
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