can't build firefox 1.0.4 on 4.10

[Tony Shadwick]

To say what he said a bit more nicely, do a quick read on cvsup in the 
freebsd handbook.  When you've read and understand, make a supfile that 
updates your ports tree to your liking with tag=.

Then I'd suggest doing the following:

pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
pkg_add -r fastest-cvsup
pkg_add -r portinstall
pkg_add -r portupgrade
pkg_add -r portdowngrade
pkg_add -r portsmanager

fastest_cvsup
cvsup -g -L2 -h (server returned above) your-supfile
portmanager -s

That will give you the state of your ports tree currently.

To deal with firefox specifically:

portinstall www/firefox

to upgrade later

portupgrade www/firefox

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:

> Timothy Smith wrote:
>
>> i've gotten futher, i've found you can't compile it with make, you need to 
>> use gmake. sunbird compiled fine, however firefox errors with
>> 
>> +++ making chrome /usr/home/timothy/mozilla/netwerk/resources  => 
>> ../../dist/bin/chrome/en-US.jar
>> error: file '../../toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/necko/contents.rdf' doesn't 
>> exist at ../../config/make-jars.pl line 418, <STDIN> chunk 9.
>> gmake[3]: *** [libs] Error 2
>> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/timothy/mozilla/netwerk/resources'
>> gmake[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
>> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/timothy/mozilla/netwerk'
>> gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
>> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/timothy/mozilla'
>> gmake: *** [default] Error 2
>
> Why aren't you compiling this from the port?  With a port someone has already 
> gone to the trouble of making FreeBSD specific patches to fix things like 
> configuration issues.  Is there a reason for trying to re-invent all those 
> wheels?
>
> --Alex
>
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