Mozilla installation - XFree86 Makefile broken ?

[Ben Washington-Yule]

Adrien Reboisson wrote:

> Hi all !
>
> I'm new to freeBSD and I've a question about mozilla installation.
>
> I want to install mozilla. I use :
>
> su
> cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla
> make
>
> Files begin to be downloaded on my computer, all seems to be OK... But 
> suddenly the process is stopped :
>
> ===> Configuring for XFree86-fontScalable-4.4.0_1
> (cd 
> /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable/work/xc/fonts/encodings && 
> imake -DUseInstalled -DProjectRoot=/usr/X11R6 
> -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config -DTOPDIR=../../.. -DCURDIR=.; make 
> Makefiles ; make includes ; make depend)
> "Makefile", line 664: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 666: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 667: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 668: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 669: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 671: Missing dependency operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/XFree86-4-fontScalable.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/www/mozilla.
>
>
> A makefile seems to be broken. I tried to install GAIM, for instance, 
> with the same result, since it seems to require the 
> "XFree86-fontScalable-4.4.0_1" which use the corrupted makefile.
>
> My question is very simple : what should I do ?
>
> Thank you very much !
>
> Regards,
>
> A.R
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For a quick fix you could try "pkg_add -r XFree86-fontScalable", this 
will download and install the pre-compiled binary. When was the last 
time you CVSup'd?

- Ben