CALL FOR TEST: Updates to pixmap, cairo, poppler, and firefox 3.0!

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:56:49 -0500, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:

>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>  www/firefox3: Update to 3.0 final
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> The bsd.gecko.mk has been moved from www/mozilla/ to Mk/. You no longer  
>> need to include bsd.gecko.mk/Makefile.common by manual. We still keep  
>> it in backward compatibility, so the rest ports won't be break. We  
>> haven't add some other ports to have Firefox 3 support yet, so if you  
>> want to add in your ports early then feel free to send me patch(es) and  
>> I shall add in MC ports-stable.
>
> Thanks for this!

No problem and thanks to ahze too. ;-)

> I was able to update my ports tree and build the new firefox without  
> problems on 8-current, as well as update the other ports you listed that  
> I have installed. I don't use gnome or kde though, so my testing of  
> these changes is pretty minimal.

Good to know, thanks!

> Not sure whose department this is, but FYI before you posted this I gave  
> the linux version of firefox 3 a whirl, and our linux-gtk port needs  
> updating to something 2.10.x or later. I found a 2.10.13 rpm from fedora  
> core 6 that worked.

Same with linux-opera, it needs newer linux-gtk if anyone want to use  
Opera's new dialog option that can use either QT or GTK dialog.

Cheers,
Mezz

> hth,
>
> Doug


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