USE_GECKO=firefox and firefox3

[Michael Johnson]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Norberto Meijome <numardbsd at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have firefox3 installed. my make.conf shows USE_GECKO=firefox.
>
> When I try to install any port (in particular today, the latest eclipse
> 3.3.2 )
> which uses USE_GECKO, www/firefox is pulled into the dependencies, rather
> tha
> firefox3.
>
> I use portupgrade to launch the eclipse upgrade ( portupgrade -p eclipse )
> ,
> and my /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf contains the following relevant
> entries:
>
>
>  ALT_PKGDEP = {
>    'www/mozilla' => 'www/firefox3',
>    'www/firefox' => 'www/firefox3',
>    'firefox-2*' => 'firefox-3*',
>    'firefox' => 'firefox3',
> [...]
> }
>
> still, no luck, ffox 2 gets pulled in.
>
> should Mk/bsd.gecko.mk have support for firefox3 ? Is there any
> solution,other
> than deinstalling ffox3, install ffox2, install eclipse, and then replace
> ffox2
> with 3 ?
>
>  ( I *suspect* that portupgrade -o {ffox something} {ffox other} eclipse
> would
> do , but not entirely sure how it works....
>


Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 2.0 aren't 100% compatible. You'll need Firefox 2.0
(for now) to build eclipse.



>
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