www/firefox compile problems

[Adam Weinberger]

Try 'portupgrade -a' and see if that solves your problem. Sounds like
you might need to do a cvsup first.

What is up with this last week?? We should make people fill out a form
acknowledging that they've run portupgrade -a before posting ::P

(Not picking on you, btw.)

# Adam


>> (03.23.2004 @ 2013 PST): Enlightenment said, in 1.5K: <<
> Hello,
> 
> Just a notice of what is maybe an error in the Makefile of the Firefox 
> port. While installing i got:
> 
> --
> checking for xft... gnome-config: not found
> gnome-config: not found
> Package xft was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xft.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'xft' found
> 
> configure: error: Library requirements (xft) not met; consider adjusting 
> the PKG
> _CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard 
> prefix
> so pkg-config can find them.
> ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> Please report the problem to gnome at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
> "/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla/config.log" including the output of the
> failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an
> overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls 
> /var/db/pkg`).
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox.
> *** Error code 1
> --
> 
> It seems that dependencies aren't correctly handled, maybe it's nice to 
> make firefox dependent on /usr/ports/x11-fonts/libXft so that the port 
> installs nicely without further user intervention.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> - Marilena
> 
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>> end of "www/firefox compile problems" from Enlightenment <<


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