On the error in makeing firefox-42.0

Takeshi Hashimoto hasimoto at liszt.ee.uec.ac.jp
Sun Nov 29 05:49:04 UTC 2015


Dear Jan Beich,

Thank you.
Firefox was installed.

When there are many troubles,
it is difficult to find the simple, yet, true solution.

			T. Hashimoto

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 03:15:41PM +0100, Jan Beich wrote:
> Takeshi Hashimoto <hasimoto at liszt.ee.uec.ac.jp> writes:
> 
> > We first tried the generic "ports" and had a mal-functioning "firefox."
> > The above is the result found in the "ports" upgraded by
> > "portsnap fetch extract" command.
> 
> Mixing packages from different revisions of ports tree isn't supported.
> www/firefox tries to require specific versions via >= in BUILD_DEPENDS
> but it's often undertested and maybe bogus for --with-system-foo that
> come from port patches.
> 
> For one, |portmaster www/firefox| would do the right thing by upgrading
> dependencies first.
> 
> > configure:20992: checking for vorbis vorbisenc >= 1.3.5
> > configure: error: Library requirements (vorbis vorbisenc >= 1.3.5) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
> [...]
> > libvorbis-1.3.4_1,3            Audio compression codec library
> 
> Upgrade libvorbis to 1.3.5 and try again.




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