Mozilla -is this port ever going to be fixed?

[Garrett Cooper]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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

I'm going to stall my work on this (fixing OO.o) until next weekend 
because I have some work items to attend to.

-Garrett