Firefox3 port problem

[Robby Balona]

Thanks Roland

I have much to learn.

Regards

Robby



Roland Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:53:08PM +0200, Robby Balona wrote:
>   
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> I have been tring to port firefox3 on freebsd 7 for a week now. I keep 
>> coming up against this error
>>     
>
> Why are you trying to port it? It is allready in ports: www/firefox3
>  
>   
>> gmake:***[libgiofam.la] Error 1
>>
>> I have done a portsnap update already. 
>>     
>
> Using portsnap is not enough; it just updates the ports tree. You also
> need to update your installed ports.
>
>   
>> Please dont flame me for not looking on google for the error as I have
>> not really worried about it until now, when I need firefox.
>>     
>
> You need to update your installed ports. You're missing gio-fam-backend,
> which is now needed by the gtk+ toolkit which is needed for firefox.
>
> Use portmaster or portupgrade to upgrade all you installed ports.
>
> Roland
>