USE_MOZILLA=yes for firefox and thunderbird

[Mikhail T.]

On 11.07.2012 22:51, Jan Beich wrote:
> "Mikhail T." <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> writes:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Attached is a fairly small patch, that changes the two ports to use
>> ports of all of the components currently supported by bsd.gecko.mk.
> I'm afraid this is already fixed in the experimental branch
> for *all* gecko ports.
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Gecko
This is awesome -- what's to be "afraid" of? But when is this hitting 
the ports-tree?
>
>> Please, consider committing soon so the work on bringing-in other
>> components (such as hunspell, sqlite3, or xulrunner) can begin. Thank
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^
> There are currently 4 copies of libxul (in CVS):
>
>    - mail/thunderbird, www/firefox (gecko-13)
>    - mail/thunderbird-esr, www/firefox-esr (gecko-10)
>    - www/kompozer (gecko-1.8)
>    - www/libxul (gecko-1.9)
There is xulrunner-13.0.2 available from Mozilla, BTW...
> Assuming the last two are gonna be deprecated installing two versions of
> xulrunner currently causes a conflict with the following files:
>
>    bin/xulrunner
>    libdata/pkgconfig/libxul-embedding.pc
>    libdata/pkgconfig/libxul.pc
>    libdata/pkgconfig/mozilla-js.pc
>    libdata/pkgconfig/mozilla-plugin.pc
>
> Forcing xulrunner to install the files under different names is trivial,
> fixing dependent ports is less so. It'd also benefit libxul19 -> libxul
> migration. And running on different engine version is not guaranteed to
> work, e.g.
>
>    # application.ini for firefox-esr
>    [Gecko]
>    MinVersion=10.0.2
>    MaxVersion=10.0.2
>
> The rest is simplifying gecko-app ports (firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey)
> by throwing away most patches, shrinking Makefile size and fixing issues like
>
>    $ firefox
>    Could not read application.ini
>    Exit 1
>
> which can be worked around with
>
>    $ /usr/local/lib/libxul/xulrunner-stub -app /usr/local/lib/firefox/application.ini
Yes! Terrific! When is this happening?.. I, for one, am rather tired of 
seeing mozilla-ports recompiling the same files -- and installing the 
same libraries -- over and over... And, worse, some pieces are installed 
/twice by each port/... Right now on my system, for example:

    /opt/lib/libxul/libxul.so
    /opt/lib/libxul/sdk/lib/libxul.so
    /opt/lib/firefox/libxul.so
    /opt/lib/firefox/sdk/lib/libxul.so
    /opt/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so
    /opt/lib/thunderbird/sdk/lib/libxul.so

Yours,

    -mi