Firefox 1.5 build issues (could not find Makefile.common)

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:29:57 -0600, John McNew <johnmcnew at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just downloaded the firefox source from Mozilla.org.  I then  
> downloaded the
> port from FreeBSD.org.  When I run make from within the firefox  
> directory, I
> get the following error:
>
> "Makefile", line 102: Could not find
> /usr/home/jmcnew/firefox/../mozilla/Makefile.common
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>
> I looked in the mozilla directory, and there really isn't a  
> Makefile.common
> file in there.  How can I get this to build?

You must get current firefox and mozilla port, not one old mozilla and new  
firefox or whatever. The Makefile.common does exists and I would recommend  
you to pull full ports tree by either CVSup, portsnap or so that get full  
update ports tree. I won't support any further if you keep just get a port  
by yourself.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Other useful info...
> uname -a yields the following:
>
> FreeBSD zaphod.beeblebrox.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu  
> Nov  3
> 09:36:13 UTC 2005     root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC   
> i386
>
> firefox Makefile info:
> -rw-r--r--  1 jmcnew  jmcnew  3268 Dec 15 09:11 Makefile
>
> both the firefox and mozilla directories are at the same level in my home
> directory.
>
> thanks,
> John


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