Firefox 1.5 build issues (could not find Makefile.common)
Michael Johnson
ahze at ahze.net
Tue Dec 20 12:46:12 PST 2005
On Dec 20, 2005, at 3:29 PM, John McNew 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 should really get the entire ports collection. You won't get far
with out it.
>
> 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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