firefox portupgrade failure RESOLVED

[David Armour]

> Message: 32
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 00:34:33 +0800
> From: Yuan Jue <yuanjue122 at 163.com>

> > > Have you upgraded the nspr port? I have almost the same problem
> > > when I didn't upgrade it to the newest version.
> > without your message, i wouldn't have noticed nspr needs updating
> > on my pkg_version listing. what does it do? i'll try updating it
> > and see what happens.
>
> so does it work now? :)

	+ www/firefox (firefox-1.0.4,1)   # !!!!

thanks for your help.

> For your information:
> Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides a platform-neutral API for
> system level and libc like functions. The API is used in the Mozilla

thanks for the explanation. i can see why firefox might need that. i'm 
less clear why the port doesn't include it as a matter of course. my 
newbieness tends to need all the help i can get, if that makes any 
sense.

regards