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

[Michael Johnson]

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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