Save me from using windows for web browsing! (Was: Firefox Compilation Problems ( _PT_PTHREAD_MUTEX_IS_LOCKED(lock->mutex)))

[Mike Hunter]

On Jul 18, "To freebsd-ports at freebsd.org" wrote:

> Firefox is giving me a hard time:
> 
> gmake[4]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla/security/nss/cmd/shlibsign/mangle'
> FreeBSD5.2_DBG.OBJ/shlibsign -v -i
> /usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla/dist/lib/libsoftokn3.so
> Assertion failure: _PT_PTHREAD_MUTEX_IS_LOCKED(lock->mutex), at
> ptsynch.c:207
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> gmake[3]: ***
> [/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla/dist/lib/libsoftokn3.chk] Error 134
> gmake[3]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla/security/nss/cmd/shlibsign'
> gmake[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla/security/manager'
> gmake[1]: *** [tier_40] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/mozilla'
> gmake: *** [default] Error 2
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/firefox.
> 
> I saw this post
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2004-March/005812.html
> 
> And tried applying the provided patch, but it didn't seem to make a
> difference.
> 
> I'm running 5.2-current from April:
> 
> uname -a
> 
> FreeBSD fark.com 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #5: Wed
> Apr  7 13:23:19 PDT 2004
> root at fark.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/dorine  i386

Well, I bit the bullet and went to current (also switched from ULE to
4BSD), and rm -rf'd /usr/ports/www/firefox/work to back out the patch
mentioned above, but I'm still stuck with this error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mike