Mozilla -is this port ever going to be fixed?

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat Mar 17 20:58:34 UTC 2007


Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Vizion wrote:
>>>>>     They will?  Why?
>>>>>     While there's no reason to think they want to gratuitously
>>>>> create bad feelings, FreeBSD machines are a small fraction of the
>>>>> current (and potential) user base.  They could blow off FreeBSD -
>>>>> heck, *BSD - first thing tomorrow and not notice.
>>>>>     OpenOffice.Org is under no obligation to FreeBSD, or its users,
>>>>> whatsoever.  Of course ... if you want to step up and contribute
>>>>> patches (or pay someone to do so) then this will get corrected.
>>>>>     Welcome to the underside of open source software.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>                 Robert Huff
>>>> What about the Seamonkey headers break OpenOffice though? 
>>> Sheesh, the
>>>> OpenOffice people should know that it's an unsupported 
>>> browser and bad
>>>> to have sitting around on a machine for security reasons 
>>> (riddled with
>>>> security bugs).
>>>>
>>>> Provide me with the perfunctory necessary patches and 
>>> stuff, and I'll
>>>> give compiling it a go with Seamonkey's headers.
>>>>
>>>> -Garrett
>>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't appear that mozilla actually 
>>> needs to be installed for OOo-2.x-devel and it appears that instead 
>>> it just automatically drags in mozilla off the web and compiles 
>>> portions of OOo specifically using mozilla's headers.
>>>
>>> Either way I'm trying a compile right now and will hopefully get 
>>> through without a hitch (even though I'm getting a bit sort on disk 
>>> space =\..).
>>>
>>> -Garrett
>>
>> Hi Garrett
>> Just want to say how much I appreciate what you are doing
>>
>> David
> 
> David,
>     You can also build Ooo with Firefox headers if you like.. it 
> requires passing in --with-system-mozilla to configure for Oo.
> Cheers,
> -Garrett

Update:

So far I've fixed configure, but now I'm working my way through trying 
to update all the child make / dependency files. We'll see how long this 
takes..

-Garrett


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